Support for the death penalty has slipped to just below 50 percent, its lowest level in 40 years.

The United States needs to restore a particular kind of politics as usual.

India, one of the top international destinations for couples hoping to hire women as surrogates for pregnancy, is poised to ban the practice in most cases.

Change, however slow, will be welcome when it comes.

The shock defeat was officially by less than a single percentage point.

Hispanics made up 70 percent of the church’s growth in the last 50 years.

Serving time in prison is not supposed to be easy. But it is not supposed to be harder for people with disabilities.

Gone are the days when the main difference between one college dormitory and another was the number of people per room.