Recent American Voices

• Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

  05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

  Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.

• Catholic Orgs Sue Over Birth-Control Rule

  05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

  Several Catholic institutions, including Notre Dame, are suing the federal government over the Obama administration’s birth control funding mandate.

• Posthumously-Conceived Children Get No Benefits

  05.22.12 | ISSUE 48•21

  The Supreme Court ruled that a set of twins conceived with frozen sperm through in vitro fertilization 18 months after the father's death are not eligible for Social Security survivor benefits.

• Karzai Thanks U.S. Taxpayers For Covering Cost Of War

  05.22.12 | ISSUE 48•21

  In an address given during the NATO summit in Chicago, Afghan president Hamid Karzai thanked the people of the United States for bearing the cost of the war.

• Study Logs 2,000 Wrongful Convictions

  05.21.12 | ISSUE 48•21

  A new database assembled by two universities has identified more than 2,000 wrongful convictions overturned in the last 23 years, at an average of 11 years each.