Daytona Beach, FL, USA. When the Bert Fish Medical Center pursued an acquisition in secrecy, the resulting scandal put all of the public hospitals in Florida under a spotlight.

There was nothing wrong or unusual about the Bert Fish board of directors pursuing the take-over of their public hospital by Adventist Health System, but they did so in utter secrecy.

Washington, DC, USA. Freedom of religion is a universal American ideal, but what provokes argument is the question of just what religious liberty means.

Lurking below surface agreement is a complex and highly charged conflict about the role of religion in public life.

Boston, MA, USA. “Right-to-die” advocates have mounted a high-profile initiative campaign in what might seem to be unlikely territory: heavily Catholic Massachusetts.

On Election Day, voters in the Bay State will consider whether to approve the Death With Dignity Act, a measure that would make Massachusetts just the third state in the country to formally approve physician-assisted suicide.