Jazz musician John Coltrane would have been 100 this week. He became one of the great spiritual musicians of the modern age.

A Special Issue on religion and the United Nations, edited by Azza Karam and Matthew Weiner

Rania Mustafa unpacks the history and politics of Hay`at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the post al-Assad Syrian regime, in this latest installment in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and our ...

A poem from Micah Bucey on Maundy Thursday. Tables as places of possiblity

Alexandra Helene St Tellien reflects what it means to be an ethnographer of Haitian Vodou and other African heritage traditions as both a scholar and practitioner

Spain will not recognize a U.S. intervention in Venezuela that violates international law, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday, after U.S. forces captured long-serving Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in an overnight operation.

The following is a guest post from SB Rodríguez-Plate, editor of CrossCurrents. Transgender Awareness Week culminates today. November 20th, with the Transgender Day of Remembrance. There are ceremonie...

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Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.

The Supreme Court ordered several cases to be reexamined after the Skrmetti ruling, despite the decision ostensibly being a limited ruling.

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It isn’t any surprise that we see online conflict as unsatisfying. But we have no protocol for disagreement these days, online or in real life. We have no habits for sitting down and working things ou...

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Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects.

Signs spotted across the U.S. on Saturday among some 1,200 demonstrations against President Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk.