The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already ...

As a Jew in a Catholic college, one of two Jewish students in my class, I had to take lots of philosophy. My motivation for ...

I walk almost daily up into the Santa Fe National Forest along with neighbors and our dogs, and I am always reminded how ...

What do Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. have in common? They’re all sports superstars, ...

Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent is lost, existence in the world ceases to be possible ...

Mining magnates seem to have it all.  Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry ...

Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering ...

Donald Trump and the Marlboro Man are case studies of branding success. When Philip Morris introduced the cowboy on its ads ...

Does Uhuru, ‘freedom’ in Swahili, apply in the United States? It depends. It depends on how the First Amendment is interpreted; it depends on how cunningly the term terrorism is applied in these ...

I've been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn't see this ...

To quote historian and expert on religious studies, John Dominic Crossan: “Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and ...

Dig, ponder, dig some more. A year ago I wrote a column about some of the early moments of my growing up – not just memories ...