With April 15’s tax day still fresh in mind, this Behind the News explores the origin of the federal income tax and finds ...

Pope Francis, the transformative and progressive leader of the Catholic Church, has passed away at the age of 88. His ...

In the best tradition of May Day, labor and community networks across the country are activating existing coalitions and ...

A landscape historian explains how a Victorian tradition became a tool for social change in 19th- and 20th-century Philadelphia.

Tomorrow’s Hertfordshire County Council elections will take place in what a top political expert has described as “an era of ...

Much of the reform process was in line with Vatican II recommendations, but which had not been carried out by subsequent ...

Economic shocks are inevitable. Unless Congress acts, the next crisis will explode government power—fueling more spending, ...

Window gardening became a means of female social reform during the Progressive Era. During this period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when industries and cities were growing fast ...

Previous conservative Popes had sternly condemned the sin, but Francis tended to treat the offering of compassionate charity ...

Ujawal Jha witnessed firsthand the deep inequalities that plague underrepresented regions.