America’s evolving sense of itself has always been entwined with fierce debates about public displays of violence ...

“Till between the waters and the wind, came the marked-down derelicts with the dollar signs for eyes,” Nelson Algren wrote in his 1951 prose poem “Chicago: City on the Make.” “Looking for any prairie ...

Opposition leaders have said they won’t ally with an Arab party, though polls show this is their only sure path to victory ...

The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six ...

The flocks of the Italian capital are helping to protect its remaining natural parks, even as pressures on the ancient practice grow Federica RossiFederica Rossi is an award-winning Italian freelance ...

One of the first public comments that U.S. President Donald Trump made after he took office on Jan. 20 was during the World Economic Forum, when he publicly rebuked the CEOs of top banks in the United ...

Churches that have not shared communion since the fifth century are now worshipping together, navigating doctrine, culture ...

A new meme has popped up during France’s student-led protests that speaks to the disconnect between the state and its young ...

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Laique was built to show that citizenship could outrank confession, but a policy shift is being seen as a sign of the country ...

Mason L. Wong is an editorial fellow at New Lines Magazine. He comes to us via the Public Humanities Doctoral Fellowship at ...

A Mandarin-language ad targeting a Republican senator is under fire for being racist and xenophobic. The ad raises questions ...