It is part of my contract as a contributor writer for America to periodically provoke. When Matt Malone, S.J., first invited me to join as a columnist several years ago, he asked me to surprise my ...

In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz writes that the U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned the Ninth Circuit's "provocation doctrine" on the ground that it was inconsistent with ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 to strike down [transcript, PDF] the “provocation rule” created by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

Amid protests breaking out around the world, Sumaya Awad explains the background to Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel. THIS MONTH marks the 30th anniversary of the first ...

On Wednesday, March 22, the eight-justice court will hear argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, a Fourth Amendment civil action filed by two people shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies ...

Today brings news that Donald Trump literally gave German chancellor Angela Merkel a $300 billion bill for NATO expenses last weekend: Donald Trump handed the German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — ...

In March, I wrote about the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Los Angeles County v. Mendez, which was a challenge to the “provocation rule,” a legal concept exclusive to the U.S. Court of ...

We write as members of KGNU’s OutSources Collective. Our group has been asked to respond to questions about appropriate measures people might take in the face of public speakers who engage in rhetoric ...

Pyongyang has loudly denounced the decision by the United States to relist North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, with a foreign ministry spokesman warning it was a “serious provocation.” In a ...

Police and CrimeStoppers are asking for the public’s help in finding a 24-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a 51-year-old man who died last week – a week after being assaulted in a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...