Analysis of the eleventh hour agreement on the filibuster controversy in Washington DC.

We talk with the author of a Nation article on the political realities of Hillary Clinton.

Reaction from Mexico City to last week's Vatican decision to drop investigations into sexual abuse allegations against the founder of an important Mexican religious order.

The National Catholic Reporter is coming out in defense of the former editor of the Catholic magazine "America", who was dismissed just after Benedict became Pope.

Three people died after receiving transplanted organs from a woman who had been infected with a rodent virus.

Arts critic Bill Marx reviews the first ever festival of international literature in New York.