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Bill Schutt’s new book, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, is a startling reminder of how strange it is to be flesh. Over the course of 300 pages, Schutt covers everything from cannibalistic…

There’s a connection between hitting children and cultural identity. Growing up in Austin, Texas, I remember going to summer camp and being shocked to meet kids who had been hit with paddles by their…

In his first book, Seattle-based union organizer Jonathan Rosenblum recounts the personal stories of clergy, activists and airport workers who mounted the first successful campaign for a $15 minimum wage in the U.S.

As the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) got underway last Monday (it runs from March 13-24), the US State Department announced that joining the official US delegation would be…

Reza Aslan is the host of the new spiritual adventure series Believer , which tackles the battle between evangelical Christianity and Vodou in Haiti in this Sunday’s episode on CNN 7PT/10ET. After the…

I realized then that I didn’t really “get” Lent—or at least how white Catholics interpreted it.

Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your favorite show? Really? Aren’t you a professor… and an adult… and a Man? But to the initiated… well, to the…

It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of the Affordable Care Act. When Democratic Congressman Mike Doyle asked his Energy and Commerce Committee colleague…