On Mothering Sunday, we can remember the famous mothers of the Bible. Many of these mothers played an important role not only ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the ...

The idea that eliminating the United States Institute of Peace would benefit taxpayers is extremely shortsighted and ill ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide—to secure legal ...

Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one?

In 2018, Mohr released his own book, Burning Down the Haus, which chronicled the role of East German punks in the political ...

Like many of his contemporaries - including Jesus - the gospel author Luke was deeply familiar with narratives in the Hebrew ...

When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American ...

Tamil row has reared its head again, with CM MK Stalin accusing the Centre of imposing Hindi through its three-language ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that he wrote his new book about the surge in antisemitism in the United States for multiple audiences but "particularly to the left." ...