Voices
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
As the rainy season reaches its end, a race to get seed and tools into the hands of hard-hit subsistence farmers in the Central African Republic begins. In the capital Bangui, mortal conflict is a grim daily reality.
Paul Gibson talks about the help he received from the Capuchins and their "On the Rise Bakery" in Detroit.
Looking for signs of hope after Detroit files the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy
Kevin Clarke visits Port au Prince three year's after Haiti's devastating earthquake. Find out more—Road to Recovery: Reconstructing Haiti.
Catholic Relief Services hopes to build a recreation center in Solino, one of the toughest neighborhoods in the Haitian capital.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Efforts to respond to the global crisis of migration are straining budgets not only at humanitarian agencies like Catholic Relief Services but among nations near points of flight.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Under current law many so-called Dreamers are technically subject to deportation to home countries.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Here are a few pieces America editors wish had made it on to those top-ten lists but didn't:
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Are Trump and Putin about to begin a new nuclear arms race?