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Armed men stand on the steps at the State Capitol after a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Lansing, Mich., on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Politics & Society Short Take
February 24, 2021
It can happen again.
A woman wrapped in a blanket crosses the street near downtown Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Temperatures dropped into the single digits as snow shut down air travel and grocery stores. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Politics & Society Dispatches
February 16, 2021
Rolling blackouts and more bad weather on the way have most Texans hunkering down under blankets and trying to stay as warm. Conditions on both sides of the border were challenging.
Politics & Society Dispatches
January 29, 2021
“It really does look like there was an atrocity and a massacre, but precisely the motivation and the details, I think we need to suspend judgment at the moment,” Laurie Nathan said.
Workers inside a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, pork processing plant wear protective gear and are separated by plastic partitions as they carve up meat. (Photo courtesy Smithfield Foods via AP)
Politics & Society Dispatches
January 13, 2021
 “Covid knows no boundaries or immigration status; it is an indiscriminate killer.”
Politics & Society Dispatches
January 11, 2021
For 17 years the attorneys general of the United States did not pursue death even though that power was in their hands, then you hit somebody like Trump.’
Politics & Society Dispatches
January 04, 2021
Philip Allen Lacovara, who served as special counsel to Watergate prosecutors, described the president’s call to election officials in Georgia as “a new low in Trumpian mendacity and abuse.”
Politics & Society Dispatches
December 23, 2020
A global hunger crisis, foretold in the beginning days of the Covid-19 crisis, is being realized.
In July demonstrators show their opposition to the death penalty outside the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., where federal executions are conducted. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
December 16, 2020
The Trump administration's execution spree in the second half of the year was without precedent and widely condemned.
Faith Advent Reflections
December 14, 2020
A Reflection for the Third Monday of Advent.
Politics & Society Dispatches
December 10, 2020
While a visit from the pope will no doubt provide a spiritual and psychological boost to Nineveh Christians, under the current pandemic conditions it is a prospect that must give local public health officials pause.