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Earlier this week, ESPN commentator and world religions expert Curt Schilling got suspended for a missive that compared Muslims to Nazis. Unfavorably. Though Schilling had tried to delete the image…

The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look, act, and function like human beings, minus consciousness or free will. They’ve been programmed to take over…

Since its inception in 2006, SoulCycle has done two things really, really well. First of all, it has turned the stationary biking class—a.k.a. spinning—into a fashionable, upper-crust, New-Agey…

In Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’s recent segment on televangelists, Oliver illuminated how these preachers exploit the special tax exemptions granted by the IRS to churches and church based…

In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers simple advice: go through all of your possessions, one by one, and ask yourself, “Does this bring me joy?”…

A friendly robot Is murdered in the City of Brotherly Love.

An interview with musician Matt Morris, millennial Christian (with a Pagan detour).

Michael Long’s new book, Peaceful Neighbor, dares to place Mister Rogers in his social, historical, and political context.

In this latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD senior correspondent Haroon Moghul offers some good things to blame all Muslims for. The…

In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour and contributor Megan Goodwin discuss public shaming and new…