Category Archives: Hard-to-categorize

Brandon Withrow, What It’s Like to Be Black and Atheist read

The Desperate and the Dead, part 5: The ‘new asylums’ read

Noel Randewich, Dow Closes at Record High [with Trump election] read

wjastore, Trump: A Worrisome Commander-in-Chief read

Ole J. Forsberg, Reports of the death of polling have been greatly exaggerated read

United With Israel Staff, Report: Palestinians Seek to Hijack Israel’s Dead Sea Scrolls read

Jurgen Schadeberg, Beyond anger read

Caleb Crain, The Case Against Democracy read

Jennifer Burns, What Was Conservatism? read

James Taranto, Mistaken Identity Politics read

Andrew McGill, This Is Who We Are read

Jed S. Rakoff, Why You Won’t Get Your Day in Court read

Bill McKibben, How the Active Many Can Overcome the Ruthless Few read

Casey Coates Danson, OVERPOPULATION: WHERE DO WE PUT THE NEXT BILLION HUMANS? read

Glenn Greenwald, The Smear Campaign Against Keith Ellison Is Repugnant but Reveals Much About Washington read

James Petras, Chosen Leaders, Proven Failures and Political Debacles read

Chris Hedges, The Mafia State read

New “Mapting” app launched to increase youth participation in achieving Sustainable Development Goals read

Margaret Power, Why Did 53 Percent of White Women Voters Go for Donald Trump? read

Carl Hendrick, Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills read

Marshall Steinbaum and Bernard Weisberger, When Economics Was Radical read
Ankita Rao, What a Trump Presidency Means For Science read

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Vince Montes, America’s “Duopoly Party System”, Central to Understanding Power and Domination read

James Petras, Chosen Leaders, Proven Failures and Political Debacles read

Jacob Kushner, Permanent Displacement: Inside Kakuma, Kenya’s 25-Year-Old Refugee Camp read

Nathan Collins: Tomas Ståhl and Linda Skitka, Is Clear Thinking Morally Superior? read
Tribes Ask International Human Rights Commission to Stop Violence Against Water Protectors read

Pratap Chatterjee, Obama’s Last Chance read

Justin Gardner, Study Shows Govt Licensing Kills 31,000 Jobs & Costs Consumers $2 billion – In 1 State Alone read

Jay Syrmopoulos, Standing Rock Sioux Offer Amazing Lesson in Compassion — Donate Supplies to Law Enforcement read

Tom Engelhardt, The Most Dangerous Country on Earth read

Matt Taibbi, The ‘Washington Post’ ‘Blacklist’ Story Is Shameful and Disgusting read

Higher-Ups, 7 Reasons that the Corporate Media Is Pro-War read

elevance, Human rights’ universality and correlation with culture read

Maria Popova, Radical Hope: Philosopher Jonathan Lear on the Paradoxical Seedbed of Courage and Cultural Resilience read

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, Trump Surrogate Said ‘There’s No Such Thing as Facts” But There Are, and They Matter read

Wayne Madsen, The Major Purveyor of ‘Fake News’ is the CIA-Corporate Complex read

wjastore, The USA No Longer Sees Freedom and Liberty as Core Strengths read

Hamid Dabashi, Why Chomsky and Zizek are Wrong on the US Elections read

Udo Ulfkotte now says that he published CIA stories under his own name read

Greg Hunter, Fake News List Death Knell for MSM-Paul Craig Roberts (41m video) watch

Trumping the World A Conversation with James Kirchick read

On Contact: The Cost of Austerity with Mark Blyth (26 min) watch

Deirdre Fulton, Chilling ‘Professor Watchlist’ Aims to ‘Expose’ Leftist Educators read

Lucy Ferris, Post-Truth and Chaos read

Introducing this week’s theme: Strasbourg’s World Forum for Democracy 2016 asks how education can renew democracy read

Andrew J. Bacevich, Winning read

Jonathan R Goodman, If culture is too expensive for most, everyone pays a price read

Joseph Joyce, The Electoral Consequences of Globalization read

Jacob Mikanowski, Wild thing read

Chris Hedges, Waiting for the Barbarians, “A Sad, Pathetic Period in American History” read

Pam Martens and Russ Martens, U.S. Journalists and Professors Appearing on RT America Get Blacklisted read

Art Swift, Americans’ Support for Electoral College Rises Sharply read

Bernie Sanders: “I Was Stunned” by Corporate Media Blackout During Democratic Primary (7m) watch

Tracy Weber, Jury Awards $93 Million in Federal Fraud Case Against Allied Home Mortgage read

Irene Klotz, US Military Develops ‘Multi-Object Kill Vehicle’ to Blast Enemy Nukes read

Maggie Garrett, DeVos Devoted Career To Dismantling Public Education read

John McWhorter, The Evolution of ‘Like’ read

Internet Archive Successfully Fends Off Secret FBI Order read

Did the DEA Nab an International Weapons Dealer, or a CIA Asset Hung Out to Dry? read

Raymond Hogler, Why America’s labor unions are about to die read

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, Belabored Podcast #117: Welcome to the Resistance, with Barbara Madeloni read

Dissent, We’ve Been Fighting Authoritarianism Since 1954. Are You With Us? read

Timothy Shenk, Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman read

Wayne Madsen, The Major Purveyor of ‘Fake News’ is the CIA-Corporate Complex read

Joel Bleifuss, Pushing the Democratic Party Left: 40 Years of In These Times read

George Yancy, I Am a Dangerous Professor read

Robert Sapolsky, To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome read

ahadave, The Danger of Claiming That Rights Come From God read

Amitai Etzioni, “We Must Not Be Enemies” read

Emily Bell, The Price We Pay for an Ad-Powered Internet read

Russ Martens and Pam Martens, Wall Street Heads Spin Over Trump Weighing Dimon for Treasury and Restoring Glass-Steagall read

Alec MacGillis, Revenge of the Forgotten Class read

“Complete segregation” of genders within Islamic school is not discriminatory, says High Court read

wjastore, Hillary Clinton’s Deplorables and Irredeemables read

Jennifer Burns, What Was Conservatism? read

Richard Wolin, Our ‘Prophet of Deceit’ read

Maria Popova, Carl Sagan on Moving Beyond Us vs. Them, Bridging Conviction with Compassion, and Meeting Ignorance with Kindness read

Emma Young, Reputation is everything: Unearthing honour culture in America read

Fareed Zakaria, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy read

Francis Fukuyama, Trump and American Political Decay read

Chayenne Polimédio, Only More Democracy Can Save Democracy read

Steve Kolowich, Academic Pollsters Didn’t See All Those Trump Voters Coming, Either. Why Not? read

David Anderson, The Failure Of Democracy – American And Other read

portside.org, Politics Is the Solution read

Paul Harvey, The Morning After in Colorado read

Diane Winston, Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel read

Casey Coates Danson, America’s Poisoned Politicized Path read

C. Robert Gibson, This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage — Now, His State’s Economy Is One of the Best in the Country read

Ralph Nader, Why isn’t the Democratic Party landsliding the worst and cruelest Republican Party in the past 162 years? read

Russ Martens and Pam Martens, Clintons Are Under Multiple FBI Investigations as Agents Are Stymied read

Michael Owen Baker, Trickle-Up Democracy: State and Local Ballots Give Voters A Say read

Thomas Frank, Forget the FBI Cache; Podesta Emails Show How America Is Run read

Nika Knight, Documents Reveal UK Involvement in Secret US Drone Campaign ‘Kill List’ read

Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Fatal Expense of American Imperialism read

Jay Syrmopoulos, Elon Musk to Completely Revolutionize the Energy Industry with New Tesla Solar Roof read

Claire Bernish, Former DEA Prescription Head Drops a BombShell — Congress Protects Big Pharma & Fuels Opioid Crisis read

Sandra Waddock, Neoliberalism’s failure means we need a new narrative to guide global economy read

Josh Jones, Was There a First Human Language?: Theories from the Enlightenment Through Noam Chomsky read

The Intercept, The Death Penalty Won Big on Election Day, But the Devil Is In the Details read

Jonathan Cook, The Fantasy at the Centre of Israel’s “Muezzin Bill”. Legislation to “Stop the Dawn Call to Prayer” read

Edward Curtin, “Orders to Kill” Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government that Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him: A Review of The Plot to Kill King by William Pepper read
Jay Syrmopoulos, Blackwater-Linked Private Military Firm Exposed Coordinating Intel for Police at Standing Rock read

Chris Hedges, Waiting for the Barbarians read

Patrick Martin, Obama Extends Global Reach of US Special Operations Death Squads read

Hossein Derakhshan, Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV

Howard Dean debates David Brooks on whether liberals hold the higher moral ground (1h 38m) watch

Drake Baer, Finally, a Psychological Explanation for Why Angry Atheists Are So Annoying read

Francie Diep, What Family Planning Worldwide Might Look Like With a President Trump read

Nicolas J.S. Davies, 35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists read

Bobby Azarian, Your brain on God: A neuroscientist explains how religious experience can be addictive read

Jimmy Carter: America Must Recognize Palestine read

John Rennie Short, Globalization and its discontents: Why there’s a backlash and how it needs to change read

Andrew Bacevich, Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Swamp of War “Yet in evaluating military operations, it’s a mistake to confuse how much with how well. Only rarely do the outcomes of armed conflicts turn on comparative statistics. Ultimately, the one measure of success that really matters involves achieving war’s political purposes…..By that standard, having been “at war” for virtually the entire twenty-first century, the United States military is still looking for its first win.” Then read his concluding alternative! read

Katharine Hayhoe: Here’s How Long We’ve Known About Climate Change read

Sabrina Shankman, How Much of Obama’s Climate Agenda Can Trump Undo With the Stroke of a Pen? read

Sylvia A. Earle & John Bridgelan, The Big Blue Elephant in the Room read

Chelsea Harvey, The gulf oil spill literally caused wetlands to sink beneath the waves, scientists say read

Riley Brands and Frank Newport, Most Americans Want Changes to Affordable Care Act read

Matthew Shannon, The Case of Xenophobic Hysteria Almost Nobody Remembers read

Alan McPherson, Prepare Yourself: We’re About to Become the Great Satan Again read

portside.org, The Union Revolt No One is Talking About read

Pew, Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump read

Juan Williams: Dark days for the FBI read

Jacob Mikanowski, Wild thing read

Bill Black: Howard Dean Wants to Continue Austerity’s Assault on the Working Class read

Michael P. Lynch, Fake News and the Internet Shell Game read

Will Self: Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories? read

Craig Timberg, Is the Pentagon Behind the Washington Post’s McCarthyite Hit on independent Alternative Journalism? read

John R. Hall, Trembling with Indignation in the Belly of the Beast read

Richard Baehr, WI Recount read

Claire Bernish, UN to Free Assange, Final Ruling Says ‘Arbitrary Detention’ Must End read
Chris Hedges, We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction read

Emma Stoye, Homeopathic Medicine Labels Now Must State Products Do Not Work read

Jeffrey Lidz, Chomsky’s Theory of Language Learning Dead? Not So Fast… read

Mark Fischetti, All 2.3 Million Species Are Mapped into a Single Circle of Life read

Victoria McGrane, Warren splits with party, Mass. interests over drug bill read

Raymond Hogler, Why America’s labor unions are about to die read

prri.org, Correlation Between White Christians, Trump Win in Key States read

Peter Holley, Stephen Hawking just gave humanity a due date for finding another planet
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Dan Dredger,‘We can’t let the bullies win’: Elizabeth Loftus awarded 2016 John Maddox Prize

Rebecca Hersher Russia Withdraws Support For International Criminal Court read

Nathaniel Scharping, Lacking Funding and Data, Gun Policy Researchers Soldier On read

portside.org, Things Are About to Get Really Ugly for the Labor Movement read

Frank Wilczek et al., Boomers and Millennials Have to Join Forces to Fight Climate Change read

M. Davout, A Silver Lining? read

Michael Hudson, Experts who quit Panama’s transparency commission produce their own report read

Kentaro Hamada, Fukushima nuclear clean-up may rise to several billion dollars a year: government read

Claudia Dreifus, In ‘Half Earth,’ E.O. Wilson Calls for a Grand Retreat read

Trash can to table: The rise of waste cafes [UK] read

Eric C. Miller, Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises read
Lucy Ash, The Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners read

James Petras, US Public Opinion Speaks to Anti-Militarism, the Electorate Votes for Warmongers read

Nathan J. Robinson, What the Clintons Did to Haiti read

Jean Saint-Vil, Haiti: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Wrecked an Entire Country read

Dady Chery, Six Ways Trump Could Help Haiti Recover from Clinton Disaster. Prosecute the Clintons? Will He do It?? read

Robert Scheer, Revenge of the ‘Deplorables’ read

David Lindorff, Obama Has a Small Window to Go Out with Some Flair and Excitement read

Marcel Rosenbach, How Google and Facebook Can Reshape Elections read

Jake Johnson, The American Way: Socialism for the Rich, Free Enterprise for the Rest read
Nicole Cesare, Do This While You Diss read

Kathryn Lofton, Understanding Is Dangerous read

Tom Engelhardt, Through the Gates of Hell read

Joe Humphreys, Is humanity losing faith in reason? read

Chris Hedges, It’s Worse Than You Think read

portside.org, How Twitter Bots Affected the US Presidential Campaign read

portside.org, The Man Hoping to Counter President Trump [Keith Ellison] read

Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here read

Justin Gardner, To Save Humanity’s Knowledge from Extinction, Researchers are Preserving It in An Incredible New Way read

Deirdre Fulton, Naomi Klein Delivers Sydney Peace Prize Lecture Against Backdrop of Trump Win read
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Maria Popova, Finding Poetry in Other Lives: James Baldwin on Shakespeare, Language as a Tool of Love, and the Poet’s Responsibility to a Divided Society read

Maria Popova, Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness” read

Maria Popova, There Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In: Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions read

Maybe football fans are tired of watching the carnage. read

Jeff Bryant, Anti-Privatization Education Victories We Can Rally Around
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Selena Larson, Facebook shows you what you want to see post-election read

Naomi Klein, It Was the Rise of the Davos Class That Sealed America’s Fate read

Charles Hugh Smith, “Of Two Minds” read

Champion of the Police State — Prison and Defense Stocks Soar After Trump Victory read

Jay Syrmopoulos, Billionaire Globalist Soros Exposed as Hidden Hand Behind Trump Protests — Provoking US ‘Color Revolution’ read

Robert Reich, Where We Go From Here watch

Harvey Wasserman, Clinton on Track to Win the Most Votes. Abolish the Electoral College! read

William Daniels, Cosmopolitans read

David Pollack, A libertarian utopia read

Tweet Email, Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat? read

Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here read

Deirdre Fulton, Betraying Water Protectors, Obama Set to Approve Dakota Access Pipeline read

Business Insider, Secret Corporate Government Merger — Known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership — is Finally Dead read

Male chimpanzees can be players and good fathers read

portside.org, Amid DNC Reckoning, Ellison Emerges As Progressive Antidote to Trump read

The Intercept, American Women Are Preparing for a War on Reproductive Rights Under President Trump read

Daniel Pudles, The Terrorism Targeting Our Grandchildren read

Claire Bernish, Facebook Has Created Ominous Censorship Tool to Profit from Chinese Oppression read

Scotty Hendricks, How Prejudice Differs in People of Higher and Lower Intelligence read

International Monsanto Tribunal In The Hague – October 2-16: Successful Tribunal and Peoples Assembly – What’s next? read

The People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War, Washington, DC (Dec. 1-2) read

Tweet Email, Obama’s Last Big Con read

Pam Martens and Russ Martens, The Right Wing Group Behind Donald Trump’s Rise Aims to Keep Fear Alive read

Nomi Prins and James Corbett, Video: Crisis at the US Federal Reserve, End of the Washington Consensus? watch

Mariam Durrani, Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive read

Dady Chery, Haiti’s Rainy-Day Presidential Elections Without Clinton Thunder read

Ray Nickerson, Confirmation bias: A psychological phenomenon that helps explain why pundits got it wrong read

Andrew J. Hoffman, How to bridge the political divide at the holiday dinner table read
Justin Gillis, With an Eye on Hunger, Scientists See Promise in Genetic Tinkering of Plants read

Mostafa M. El-Bermawy, Your Filter Bubble is Destroying Democracy read

Jeffrey M. Jones, Record-High 77% of Americans Perceive Nation as Divided read

Jeffrey M. Jones and Valerie J. Calderon, Higher Ed Faculty Skeptical About Online Course Quality read

Rebecca Gordon, No “New Normal” read

Probiotic America, Ron Paul Reveals the REAL Culprits of Dangerous ‘Fake News’ in His Own Epic List read

Jack Burns, Julian Assange Winning Popular Vote For Time’s Person of the Year, Kim Jong Un Beating Hillary read

Cal Newport, Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. read

David Harris-Gershon, U.S. Jews prepared to register as Muslim if Trump creates a national database read

Caine, The dirty little secret of preferential treatment in US higher education read

portside.org, A Summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document read

portside.org, Myanmar’s Muslim Purge Is So Awful You Can See it From Space read

Pierre Rosanvallon, How to Create a Society of Equals read

Jeffrey W. Eggers, When War Becomes an Easy Decision read

Martin Marty on “InterVarsity Blues” read

Josh Jones, Philosopher Richard Rorty Chillingly Predicts the Results of the 2016 Election … Back in 1998 read

Mattea Kramer, Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, You Don’t Leave Home Without It read

Diane Ravitch, When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? [rev. Samuel Abrams and Mercedes Schneider] read

Jameel Jaffer. Information Clearing House [drones] read

David Gilbert, The International Criminal Court could soon crumble in Africa read

Jennifer Hancock’s new book, How to Win Arguments Without Arguing::Socratic Jujitsu read

Krista Tippett’s On Being podcasts.. listen

Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett, Imaging a New America listen

James Vaznis, Mass. sees flurry of plans for pricey high schools read

TIME, How John Oliver Became Our Money Champion of the Year read

Nathan Heller If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots? read

Katherine Knott, What It’s Like to Be Named to a Watch List of ‘Anti-American’ Professors read

M. Gregg Bloche, When Doctors First Do Harm read

Scotty Hendricks, How Prejudice Differs in People of Higher and Lower Intelligence read

Daniel Bergner, The Science behind Women’s Sexual Desire: Provocative, Immediate, and Raw read
Paul Edwards, National Genocide Day read

Information Clearing House, [Global Research Reflects on Election] read

Quincy Larson, Craigslist, Wikipedia, and the Abundance Economy read

Maria Popova, On Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness read

Maria Popova, Healing the Heart of Democracy: Parker Palmer on Holding the Tension of Our Differences in a Creative Way read

Maria Popova, Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life read

portside.org, In Brazil, New Corruption Scandals For Faction that Impeached Dilma read
Bigger Cities Benefit the Rich, Harm the Poor [Australia] read

David Breeden, At #Thanksgiving, A Wish for Freedoms read

Scott Barry Kaufman, The Personality of Political Correctness read

Max Mueller, Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race” “Mormon culture. It also made me curious about the history that created such a culture—a culture that is welcoming and loving but can be/is often rigid, patriarchal, tribal, and reluctant to change….More broadly, the take-home message is that, in many ways, the Mormon race story is the American race story. It is story of an ideology of equality—but one that has not only never been realized, but for a period of time, also served to exclude, sequester, enslave, and even kill racialized others.
….And only after the Bible and the Quran, it’s the third most reproduced religious text in the world….Trump’s election woke me up to white supremacy’s enduring hold on our society. “ read

Eric Reitan, A 14-Point Rebuttal to The Nashville Statement from a Straight Cis Christian Man :In the wake of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s “Nashville Statement,” RD published commentaries by Daniel Schultz, who called the manifesto “less of a theological statement than a Facebook post,” and Candace Chellew-Hodge, who argued that “this kind of damage has only been done to the LGBT community because we have given them the authority to do it.” Below, Eric Reitan opts for the point-by-point rebuttal that, we felt, might be of greater utility to readers with family or friends who find this sort of thing compelling. ⎼ eds” read

Practicing Disobedience: Social and Environmental Justice Depends on Our Capacity to Disobey read

In the Public Interest Ralph Nader’s Animal Envy read

Jason Wilson, So you want to get out of your bubble: try reading these conservative websites read

Stephen Lendman, November 22,1963: Remembering JFK’s State-Sponsored Assassination read

The Four Horsemen Documentary – Noam Chomsky, Joseph Stiglitz, John Perkins, Herman Daly (1h 38m) watch

Masha Gessen, Autocracy: Rules for Survival read

Tim Parks and Riccardo Manzotti, The Challenge of Consciousness read

Chris Hedges, We Are All Deplorables read

This site is searchable, giving me easy access to past isues and people cited. You may also find this useful. From time to time I have added categories, and am now adding many articles as Hard to Categorize.

Allie Conti, The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution “PPhilip Schwadel is a sociologist at the University of Nebraska who studies how Americans’ attitudes about religion and politics change from generation to generation. For a study published in April, he reviewed decades of polling data to try and figure out the most likely predictor for thinking that global warming was not a major problem. Schwadel concluded that biblical literalism—or the belief that the Bible is the word of God —is what’s keeping Americans from an agreement to fight climate change.” read
Randall Balmer, Under Trump, evangelicals show their true racist colors “The statistics tell one story: 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. The deafening silence from leaders of the religious right in the wake of the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Va., points to an even larger one, which places racism at the very heart of the movement…..What does it tell us when businessmen demonstrate a greater moral resolve than ministers?” read
Jim Winkler, All the President’s Preachers “We refuse to countenance a president who gives quarter to those who sow hate and injustice among the American public. Our congregations will continue to witness to a God who loves everyone regardless of race or creed. We need our evangelical sisters and brothers to join us.” read
Aleksandra Sandstrom, God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution read
Michael Stone,Michael Stone,Catholic Church Claims Child Sex Abuse Victims ‘Consented’ read
Katherine Kelaidis, White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville read
enna Weissman Joselit, Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments read
Antony Alumkal, A New Book Explains How the Christian Right Has Gotten Selective Denial Down to a Science “I coined the term “paranoid science” to refer to pseudoscience movements driven by paranoia. I built on historian Richard Hofstadter’s classic essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which describes the recurrence of grand conspiracy theories (our whole way of life is under threat). When Christian Right leaders object to some sector of science, they respond by creating a grand conspiracy theory.” read
David Klinghoffer, Canaanite DNA Episode Reveals Limits of Science and of Science Reporting read
Michael Egnor, How Is Purpose Related to Teleology in Nature? read
Mary Magdalene was destined to be the first pope read
Julian Young Arthur Schopenhauer: the first European Buddhist read
Emily McFarlan Miller, Why is sexuality such a big deal for the church? read
templeton.org, Multimedia Journal about Faith, Ethics and Scholarship that Bridges the Gap between Academia and the Public Square. Renovatio read
templeton.org, Religious Competition and Creative Innovation: Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea read
Caine, White nationalists and religion read
!Mark Koyama, Ideas were not enough. :Finally, the history of how religious freedom came to be is a reminder that commitment to liberal values alone is not enough for liberalism to flourish. It requires a suitable political and economic foundation. “ read
Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia read
Possibilities (Templeton) read
Owen Jarus, 7 Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed read
Manveena Suri and Omar Khan, Indian guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh sentenced to 20 years for rape read
Tara John, What to Know About India’s ‘Guru of Bling’ Whose Rape Conviction Sparked Riots read
Danny R., What Will Happen on September 23, 2017? read
Dina Nayeri, Yearning for the end of the world read
Ruth Jackson and Hanna Weibye, Can reason make room for religion in public life? Schleiermacher’s legacy read
Arthur Green, Restoring Kabbalah to Mainstream Judaism read
Brian D. McLaren, The ‘Alt-Right’ Has Created Alt-Christianity read
The KAIROS Company for Friends of Zion, One of Facebook’s Largest Prayer Groups Honors Numbers 24:9 read
Alexander Burns, Rabbis Protest Trump’s Comments by Boycotting Conference Call “All four Jewish groups — the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism — said they could not participate in interactions with Mr. Trump around the fall holidays.
“We have concluded that President Trump’s statements during and after the tragic events in Charlottesville are so lacking in moral leadership and empathy for the victims of racial and religious hatred that we cannot organize such a call this year,” the statement said.” read
Frederick Starr, How the U.S. Promotes Extremism in the Name of Religious Freedom read
Gregory Cowles, A Science Writer [Robert Wright] Embraces Buddhism as a Path to Enlightenment read
Sean Illing, Why Buddhism is true, Robert Wright on his new book read
John Bowden, Evangelical students returning university diplomas to protest Trump read
Graeme Wood, True Believers “The latest effort to explain this orders-of-magnitude increase in the number of jihadists is Ali Soufan’s Anatomy of Terror.” read
Michael Kulikowski, Christians were strangers “That problem would not have come to have its historic, and tragic, consequences had Constantine’s conversion not rapidly brought much of the imperial population with him.” read
COLD FUSION AND THE END OF SCIENTISM? Ian Hutchinson int. by Ross Douthat read
Dan Colman, 50 Famous Academics & Scientists Talk About God (includes links for another 50 academics and 30 writers) watch
Dan Colman,Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read read
Rob Boston, The Alt-Right And The Religious Right Stand In Opposition To America’s Tradition Of Religious Freedom read
Blasphemy laws “astonishingly widespread”, says US government report read
Aleksandra Sandstrom, God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution read
Jack Jenkins, Conservative faith leaders stand by Trump despite his defense of white supremacist rally read
Graeme Wood, True Believers read
Liel Leibovitz, Historic Decision Allows Women to Head Israel’s Rabbinic Courts read
Gabriela Geselowitz, Boreh Pri Ha’Ganja: What’s the Proper Blessing to Say Over Weed? read
Jewcy site read
Kyle Mantyla Michele Bachmann To Become Religious Right Ministry’s ‘Pastor To The United Nations’ read
Michael Rezendes, A priest’s son takes his case directly to the Pope read
Michael Rezendes, Children of Catholic priests live with secrets and sorrow read
Possibilities: Spirituality and health // Religious treatments for depression // Global religious futures Templeton project at Harvard) read
Tara Isabella Burton, After Charlottesville, white pastors are asking: are we complicit? read

Robert Parry, More Misleading Russia-gate Propaganda read
Yuri Slezkine, Awaiting the Real Day: An Excerpt from Yuri Slezkine’s “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution read
Margaret Kimberley, The Root and Russophobia read
Ajamu Baraka, The Story of Charlottesville Was Written in Blood in the Ukraine “And when we understand that white supremacy is not just what is in someone’s head but is also a global structure with ongoing, devastating impacts on the people of the world, we will understand better why some of us have said that in order for the world to live, the 525-year-old white supremacist Pan-European, colonial/capitalist patriarchy must die. read
Finian Cunningham, As Russia-Gate Story Stalls, Cue Trump Neo-Nazi Scandal read
Adam Garrie, The 2014 Ukraine Coup Was as Much About China as Russia. Eurasian Trade and the New Silk Road read
Former NSA Official: Dems’ Russia Hacking Story Likely Bogus read
William Hanna, The Ineffable Reality of American Democracy. Who is Interfering in US Politics? Russia or Israel? read
Emily Glaze read

Trav Mamone, Menstrual taboo claims another victim [in Nepal] read

Tom Engelhardt, Will Trump Make 1984 Look Like a Nursery Tale? read

Ian Penman, Wham Bang, Teatime (David Bowie) read

wjastore, Is the Idea of a Military Coup Hysterical? read

Amia Srinivasan, Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger? [Martha Nussbaum’s new book0 read