A ballot measure aimed at overturning California’s 1963 Fair Housing Act revealed some serious divisions within the Episcopal Church.

The West African grass was imported to sustain Caribbean sugar plantations, but it has turned against them, becoming a symbol of resilience and independence.

Environmentally oriented films from the classical era of Hollywood animation delivered powerful messages about the negative consequences of technological progress.

Climate activist attacks on works by van Gogh, Vermeer, and other art world titans are the latest in a tradition of destruction that hearkens to the early Christian zealots.

In Egypt's capital, members of an impoverished Coptic population strengthen community ties while making a living as ragpickers.

Johnny Cash wasn't the only superstar to play in prisons. Music, initially allowed as worship, came to be seen as a rockin' tool of rehabilitation.

Well-researched stories from Slate, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

How humans have acquired, used, and assigned cultural value to spices, from sage to cinnamon, chili pepper to salt.

Fundamentalism, which shifts the balance between authority structures and the indescribable divine, emerged after medieval society gave way to the modern.

Wartime production led directly to environmental and social injustices, polluting land and bodies in ways that continue to shape public policy and race relations.