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There will be much debate surrounding today’s announcement of the normalization of relations between Cuba and the US, but I hope the voices of the Cuban and Cuban-American people will be heard. While…

#RDSerial live-tweet starts at noon, EST on Thursday, Dec. 18th!

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that Americans, by a 59-31% margin, believe that CIA “treatment of suspected terrorists” in detention was justified. A plurality deemed that “treatment” to be…

A response to Ivan Strenski’s “Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?”

Anderson Cooper’s journey into mindfulness was featured on the latest episode of 60 Minutes, and it proved to be a textbook example of what I call the mystification, medicalization, mainstreaming, and…

On Friday, the Senate voted to confirm Rabbi David Saperstein to the post of Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom by a vote of 62-35. The post has been vacant since the 2013 departure of Suzan…

Modi’s recent efforts are mired in inaccurate myths of yoga’s static essence and Indian origin.

Human Rights Day was celebrated this week, on December 10. Michael Adee celebrated with a post about the International Consultation on the Church and Homophobia, which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia…

Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.

The ongoing debate regarding activism and the academy: climate change edition.