But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

I have mentioned before in this column the etching I once saw in a house in Ireland where a child lay on a bed dying. The ...

A reader takes a whimsical view toward the president’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

"(En)countering epistemic imperialism", by Tereza Hendl and others, includes valuable critique, despite often opaque language ...

The proposal would make it so only parents or guardians of children at a school could challenge a book’s inclusion in the ...

For each report, the prisoner's sentence is commuted by 4 days. An inmate can submit up to 12 reviews per year for 48 days of ...

If you know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead, you probably already know that these three famous musicians were hugely inspired by its texts.

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

Simmons, is a novel by the screenwriter of the 1971 movie of the same name -- the first to be called “folk horror” ...

The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents the first museum exhibition inspired by Alice Coltrane’s life and legacy, “Alice Coltrane, ...