Feminist scholars and activists, including Gloria Steinem and Leymah Gbowee, reflected on a movement that they said remains ...

Fleeing Iran as a child, Rita Panahi knew just two words of English. Today, she's a controversial opinion columnist and ...

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Atheism, in its broadest sense, is the disbelief in God or gods. Historically, atheism often existed as a philosophical or intellectual stance. In ancient Greece, Rome, and India, thinkers debated the ...

Recent studies show how, from the staunchly secular nations of Europe to the spiritually rich cultures of Asia, the landscape of atheism varies widely. One particular finding highlights how nonbelief ...

G OVERNMENTS IN South-East Asia once feared the rise of Islamist terrorism, and acted forcefully and successfully to suppress it. These days a different transformation has been taking hold in the ...

His rise was connected to so many aspects of modern American life, from reality television and information technology to ...

Thirty-five years after Germany's reunification, Brandenburg – the rural state surrounding Berlin – shows both promise and peril. Economic modernization has not prevented social fragmentation.

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

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