New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.

At the end of this election year, a time for silence seems sorely needed.

The Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan said he was horrified to see widespread devastation and what he called “ghost towns” during a recent visit to northern Iraq. He said by email that there was little left in some of the communities that he toured on Nov. 27-29 and that

Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people.

Like any technology, it depends on how we use it.

No civilized society can remain indifferent to the clear suffering of so many at this time.