These are the genes responsible.

In writing and life, the Australian Nobel Laureate was ever preoccupied by the search for spiritual meaning and the fraught relationship between God and blundering humanity.

Okubo’s art showed the work of Japanese Americans forced to rehabilitate both the “enemy alien” on the home front and the enemy in the Pacific after the war.

The framework used by theologians to understand emotions changed in the Middle Ages, thanks in part to new translations of Arabic texts.

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In the second century BCE, Han Dynasty Emperor Wu so desired a herd of “blood-sweating” horses from Central Asia that he was willing to wage war over them.

We may have heard enough about xenophobia, the fear of the stranger. But what of its opposite, the love for a stranger, better known as hospitality?

In 1963, more than thirty Mexican guest workers died in a terrible accident in California. The fallout helped turn farmworkers’ rights into a national cause.

As radio matured in the twentieth century, politicians harnessed the technology in different ways to break down barriers between them and the public.

The “Moho,” short for the Mohorovičić discontinuity, is a long way down.