Budget reconciliation – the oft-used pathway for expediting tax and spending legislation through Congress – may be poised for another star turn on the national stage. Democratic leaders are signaling ...

Author of the book ‘After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands,’ Jacobs discusses her fascination with the American West and her own “ongoing practice” of ...

Scholars said a willingness to be uncomfortable with the nation’s history can be a key component to reconciliation during the 2024 BYU Slavery Project conference on the Brigham Young University campus ...

There’s a cart at the Maryland State Archives waiting for Howard County resident Marlena Jareaux. It is piled high with seven containers worth of Reconstruction-era archival documents. All that ...

It is tempting to think the authors of the 1974 federal budget law were feeling mischievously ironic when they chose “reconciliation” as the name for a particularly arcane process the bill established ...

Jonathan Monnet got an unexpected email Thanksgiving week of last year, suddenly filling in the dots of his family's fragmented past. Sister Maureen Chicoine, of the Society of the Sacred Heart, told ...

Opportunity sometimes knocks twice. House Democrats missed a historic one when they voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker — they could have kept him in his seat in exchange for ...

In my previous blog, I introduced the concept of truth and reconciliation as a way to engage in social empathy. I shared information on the process of truth and reconciliation that my colleague David ...

If you asked me in 2005 to define budget reconciliation, I may have assumed you were talking to me about reconciling my personal budget. The truth is: budget reconciliation is essentially “reconciling ...

For the Church’s first seven centuries, penance could be received no more than once in a lifetime. That policy dated back to the time of St. Peter. The New Testament tells us... - Published on August ...

Jareaux is one of the four founders of the Howard County Truth & Reconciliation group, which has spent the past year piecing together the history of lynching in Howard County. It is a layered one in ...