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Does coronavirus aid to news outlets undermine journalistic credibility?
More than two dozen newsrooms have shut down and stopped the presses during the pandemic. Tom Werner/GettyThe news business, like every other, is struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. The economic...
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Prisoners in US suffering dementia may hit 200,000 within the next decade –...
An inmate at California Men's Colony prison.Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesPrison officials are bracing for a silver tsunami that will flood correctional facilities with elderly and often vulnerable...
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3 moral virtues necessary for an ethical pandemic response and reopening
The coronavirus crisis isn't hitting all communities equally hard, calling for not just aid like this California food bank but also justice-oriented policies to redress harms. Mario Tama/Getty...
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Why soldiers can't claim conscientious objection if ordered to suppress protests
National Guard members and protesters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 20, 2020. Seth Herald/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Trump’s order that National Guard should “dominate” the streets of Washington, D.C.,...
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Muslim Americans assert solidarity with Black Lives Matter, finding unity...
Muslims demonstrate against police brutality and racial injustice in Brooklyn.John Lamparski/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe killing of George Floyd took place at the doorstep of Muslim America.He was...
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Monks, experts in social distancing, find strength in isolation
Catholicism has a long tradition of seeing being alone as a source of healing, not isolation. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty ImagesNeed a habit to get through trying times? Try solitude.Ever since...
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The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met...
Woodcut, circa 1400. A witch, a demon and a warlock fly toward a peasant woman.Hulton Archive /Handout via Getty ImagesOn a midsummer day in 1438, a young man from the north shore of Lake Geneva...
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Black churches have lagged in moving online during the pandemic – reaching...
A multimedia technician wipes down audio equipment at a church in Brooklyn.AP Photo/Bebeto MatthewsFrom online campaigns for justice to popular TikTok challenges, Black young adults are at the...
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Islam's anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today
Muslims of all backgrounds pray during the 2019 Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty ImagesOne day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He...
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Supreme Court hands victory to school voucher lobby – will religious...
Protesters gather as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visits a school in Maryland.Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court’s recent decision that Montana cannot exclude...
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COVID-19 makes clear that bioethics must confront health disparities
The Statue of Liberty.Stock Photo/Getty ImagesWith some reluctance, I’ve come to the sad realization the COVID-19 pandemic has been a stress test for bioethics, a field of study that intersects...
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Srebrenica, 25 years later: Lessons from the massacre that ended the Bosnian...
Bosnia's memorial cemetery of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which is still receiving new remains as more genocide victims are identified. Elvis Barukcic/AFP via Getty ImagesEurope’s worst massacre...
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The Supreme Court just expanded the 'ministerial exception' shielding...
The ministerial exemptions ruling is one of several cases involving religious employers in front of the Supreme Court.Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty ImagesShould religious employers be allowed to...
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Black deaths matter: The centuries-old struggle to memorialize slaves and...
The Say Their Names Cemetery commemorating the lives of black victims of police violence.Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesIn an open lot just a block or so from where George Floyd was killed while being...
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Suicide of Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazi exposes the 'freedom and violence'...
A memorial to Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazi in Amsterdam, June 19, 2020. Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLGBTQ communities worldwide are mourning the death of 30-year-old Sarah Hegazi,...
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How to stay honest when filing taxes in a pandemic year
Filing taxes during coronavirus times.Drazen/ E+ via Getty ImagesMany in the U.S. will be filing their personal income tax returns in the next few days, as the deadline to do so was pushed from April...
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Why Buddhist monks collect alms and visit households even in times of social...
Monks socially distancing as they go about their daily alms rounds while dressed in face masks as well as robes have become a common sight during the coronavirus pandemic in Thailand. Pictures in Thai...
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Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
Delegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880.National ArchivesSome Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent...
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Zounds! What the fork are minced oaths? And why are we still fecking using...
Using minced oaths became a habit in NBC's The Good PlaceYouTube/NBCWhat in tarnation is “tarnation?” Why do people in old books exclaim “zounds!” in moments of surprise? And what could a professor of...
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Protestantism's troubling history with white supremacy in the US
A New Jersey minister welcoming members of the KKK into his church in 1923.Bettmann via Getty...
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