Check out these recent articles from around the web:

Pro-Life, Anti-Poverty by Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig: “If the goal really is reducing abortion and supporting the ability of mothers to care for their infants, the data directs us to a very intuitive solution: give would-be moms, especially the poorest, the financial boost they need to give birth while maintaining financial security. A child allowance program fits the bill neatly.”

Can Women of Faith Lead the Next Wave of Feminism? by Ashley McGuire: “A new feminism is needed, one that builds on the real progress of the last century that has enabled today’s woman to be more educated and independent than ever in human history. This feminism needs to be expanded to include marriage and motherhood as positive developments in a woman’s life, as forms of personal success and flourishing that contributes to society and the common good in a most essential way. And it is religion that is best suited to be the driver of this new, more expanded feminism.”

The Children of the Drug Wars: A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis by Sonia Nazario: “We must recognize this as a refugee crisis, as the United Nations just recommended. These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service.”

Those Girls Haven’t Been Brought Back by Nicholas Kristof: “Boko Haram is assassinating teachers, attacking schools and kidnapping students because it knows that literacy is the enemy of extremism. Terrorists understand the power of education. Do we?”

An Interview With Robert Ford, the Former Ambasssador to Syria by Isaac Chotiner: “I think people in these countries deserve the same respect for basic human rights that we enjoy in places like the United States, Canada, western Europe. There’s a United Nations Universal Charter on the respect for human rights and it’s just as applicable in Arab countries as it is anywhere else.”

Church’s efforts on immigration reform by Michael Sean Winters: “I am not sure which is more horrifying, the images of unaccompanied children, scared, fleeing their homes, having traveled hundreds of miles, and ending up at a detention center that has all the warmth of a barracks, or the images of angry, hate-filled protesters in the town of Murrieta, California, trying to block the buses from bringing these children to that town’s immigration processing center.”