by Randall Balmer | Feb 21, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The email arrived on a Friday afternoon, a bolt out of the blue from Trinity International University. Any notice from a university president entitled “Reimagining the Future” can’t be good news. Sure enough, after the treacly God talk – “educating men and women to...
by Jack Moline | Feb 21, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
In the last episode of the Israeli television series “Shtisel,” the father quotes Isaac Bashevis Singer, a secular Yiddish writer. It is a bit of a stretch for even a fictional ultra-orthodox rabbi from a notably insular community to be quoting the famously secular...
by Starlette Thomas | Feb 20, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
An African American enclave in Rosewood, Florida, was destroyed 100 years ago. From lynchings to mob violence waged against African American communities, America has a long and tragic history of suspending law and order when it comes to race. On January 1, 1923, in...
by Sophia Said | Feb 20, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Ten days after the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the voices of the thousands who remain buried under the rubble are becoming quiet. They waited to be pulled out, but the lack of heavy equipment, difficult access to the affected areas, and challenges with...
by Amy Butler | Feb 20, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
When I think of what it must be like to be my therapist, I imagine the job feels like some combination of working as a farrier in a long-neglected barn and waiting every week for the next season of “The White Lotus” on HBO. I like to work hard in therapy, most of the...
by Molly T. Marshall | Feb 17, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
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