In Genesis 32, verses 24 to 28, the patriarch Jacob is briefly separated from his family, and he spends a night wrestling with a...

Following last week’s vivid display of how far the United States had come in its slide towards fascism during the last few years, it’s...

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On the afternoon following election day, presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden gave remarks in which he said...

The past few years have been an emotional roller-coaster for those of us who’d hoped to leave this world a better place than we’d found...

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What do Rosh Hashanah and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have to do with the human condition? Every cultural tradition offers signposts and...

As the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 approaches the latest milestone of 215,000, it amazes some that the faithful are still coming out to...

The economic theorist and political economist Daron Acemoglu of MIT and political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago...