Tag: Religion and society
This Passover, as in the past, will be a time to...
Samuel L. Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder
Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will,...
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction...
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University
A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas...
‘Doing nothing’ is all the rage – is it a form...
Ingrid Nelson, Amherst College
The pandemic has either created too much free time or too little. Kitchen-table commutes and...
How New York’s 19th-century Jews turned Purim into an American party
Zev Eleff, Touro College
Purim, which falls this year on Feb. 26, ranks among Judaism’s most joyous holidays.
In Texas, price gouging during disasters is illegal – it is...
Elizabeth Brake, Rice University
In Houston, as millions suffered power and water outages, food shortages and subfreezing temperatures, another...
What are the origins of Lent?
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
In late winter, many Christian denominations observe a 40-day period of...
Indian farmers are a powerful force in Indian politics, and here’s...
Surupa Gupta, University of Mary Washington
For over two months, farmers in India have been on a largely peaceful...
Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of...
Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
The Biden administration has revived a plan to put Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill after Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
