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(ANALYSIS) Aging is often feared, resisted, and in the cruelest of cases, mocked and even punished. Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author of the book “Elderhood,” puts it well when she says older people who seek health care are often made to feel superfluous even if the intention is benign. In the workplace in general, […]
Mediha, now 19 years old, was only 10 when Daesh attacked Sinjar. She was one of the thousands of Yazidi women and children abducted by the terror group. She was separated from her parents and three younger brothers before being enslaved for three years. During this time, she was sold to Daesh fighters several times. […]
(ANALYSIS) I’ve been working on a book project for most of the year. The focus of the manuscript is the idea of religious polarization. Growing up evangelical and becoming a mainline Protestant has given me a really interesting perspective on how people perceive the religious landscape. For those of you who aren’t aware, mainline Protestants […]
Mexico and the United States both held presidential elections this year, but along the campaign trail, two different conversations were taking place. In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum rallied voters with the catchphrase: “It’s time for women.” She beat her next closest rival, also a woman, by 32 points—nearly 20 million votes. On election night, supporters in […]
On Aug. 23, 1989—the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which established spheres of Soviet and German influence across Eastern Europe—approximately 2 million people across the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania formed a human chain stretching more than 400 miles in a sign of resistance to the Soviet Union’s occupation […]
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs. Add another to the music industry’s copyright lawsuits against […]
At 2:26 a.m. on Nov. 6, 2024, Joe Biden’s claim to sole U.S. presidential authority ended. At that moment, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban became the first foreign leader to congratulate Donald Trump on his electoral victory, commending the president-elect for his “enormous win” in a message on X. He was followed swiftly by Israeli […]
Speaking of which, my friend Dan Williams, a retired preacher, professor and marriage therapist who lives in Tennessee, noted that nearly every congregation has a “cat lady.” He joked that he told one such woman that “dogs will go to heaven, and cats will go the other direction.” “When she started to protest, I said: […]
This feature by religion-beat veteran Emma Green is a must read. While activists on both sides might debate some details (gender dysphoria language, for example), the key is that the feature turns an accurate spotlight on strengths and fault lines in the Trump 2.0 coalition. A key player in the move toward a populist approach, […]
Thanks to the decisive victory of US president-elect Donald Trump, we’re now set to hear a whole lot more of his favourite word. It’s something of a love affair. On the campaign trail in October, he said: To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff. Previously, he’s matched such rhetoric with real policies. […]