"I find that starting the day with a little bit of quiet time changes the whole complexion of the rest of the day. It’s almost like warming up before you go into an athletic event. But the key is that you can do it anywhere," says Congressman Tim Ryan, author of A Mindful Nation.

"When prosecutors get into the heat of battle, something takes over the competitive spirit...and they want to win at all costs," says criminal defense attorney Brendan Sullivan.

Watch more of our interview with the famed criminal defense attorney, who discusses the ill-fated prosecution of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and offers some suggestions for improvements at the U.S. Department of Justice.

"I think right from the beginning of our republic, we’ve been torn by this tension between individualism and community…But I think we too often tell our story almost entirely on the individualistic side," says author and commentator E. J. Dionne.

Individual liberty versus the common good and the ongoing need for comprehensive immigration reform are among the issues religious groups continued to debate as the High Court’s term came to a close.

"It was the first successful labor union for farmworkers,” says author Miriam Pawel. “It was very much the civil rights movement of the West,". But fifty years after its founding by the late Cesar Chavez, the UFW is struggling to retain membership and influence.

A national debate is underway over the First Amendment, federal law, and whether “reasonable minds can disagree” about what religious freedom means. Watch excerpts from some recent interviews.

“What you are seeing is not quite a civil war, but kind of a civil skirmish within the US church about what it means to be Catholic.”

Catholic groups, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan's archdiocese of New York, filed lawsuits in federal courts on May 21 to stop the Obama administration from implementing a mandate that would require them to cover contraceptives in their health plans.

The Supreme Court will rule on sentencing juveniles convicted of murder to life with no parole. Justice Scalia told the Court “the American people…have decided that’s the rule.” But Justice Ginsburg suggested such sentencing makes a juvenile “a throw-away person.”