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What’s going on when the Virgin Mary appears and statues weep?...

Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross Claims of appearances of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been...

Rainbow fentanyl – the newest Halloween scare

Joel Best, University of Delaware Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk...

Jimmy Hoffa disappeared – and then his legacy took on a...

David Scott Witwer, Pennsylvania State University On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the Teamsters Union, disappeared. He’d gone to a restaurant in...

Inside the sacred danger of Thailand’s caves

Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton University After almost three weeks in the dark, 12 Thai boys and their coach, were rescued from a cave deep underneath...

Inside the sacred danger of Thailand’s caves

Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton University For the past two weeks, a global audience has been transfixed by the drama of 12 boys and their coach...

Ancient Greek wisdom for today’s leadership crisis

Emily Anhalt, Sarah Lawrence College What makes a good leader? This question confronts us at every election and with every domestic and international policy decision. As...

Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad

Joshua Gold, University of South Carolina The American family is evolving. Fifty years ago, a nuclear family of two biological parents and children was the...

Why children believe (or not) that Santa Claus exists

Jacqueline D. Woolley, University of Texas at Austin The holiday season is upon us, and so are its attendant myths, most prominent of which is...

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