Abuse and cruelty to animals are disturbingly common features of Amish life, just as they are in the secular world. Laws against animal cruelty must be applied to all people without religious exemptions.

The new Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" examines the singer’s shift away from the political folk scene and into rock-and-roll stardom. It underlines the difficult tension between using art for political force and individual expression.

The billionaires are marching through the institutions. We must build alternative sources of power that can resist them.

Philosopher and sociologist Musa al-Gharbi explains who gets accused of being 'woke,' what their social justice beliefs actually are, and how they practice them.

Afrofuturism, the centuries-long intellectual and creative tradition of imagining Black futures through speculative narratives, could not be more relevant right now as we face racial, social, and economic inequities alongside a worsening climate crisis.

The Democrats’ foreign policy has been horrifying. The Republican Party’s anti-war posture is a sham. War is not about political parties. It’s the people versus the powerful. 

The California wildfires are not a mere act of God. These apocalyptic scenes will increase as the climate crisis worsens unless we end the culture of denial.

A tribute to the French Quarter, a broken, weird, and wonderful place that exemplifies the best things about America as well as much that is wrong with it.