Arakan, Deconstruction

May 16, 2013
Photographer Ryan Roco investigates the complex and multifaceted conflict that led to the current refugee crisis in Burma's Arakan...

Pakistan's Lost Vote

May 13, 2013
In Pakistan, polling is over and the votes have been counted but the voice of one group has not...
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What Are You?

April 30, 2013
David F. Evans reviews Emily Raboteau's latest book, "Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora."

Daily Links: Today's Soap Box

April 25, 2013
What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.

Secular Lebanon

April 22, 2013
From Beirut, Irina Papkova reports on an anti-sectarian movement for a more secular Lebanon, and a marriage that's...
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"The Bible's" Fill of Meaningful Omission

April 17, 2013
"The Bible" squashed the central achievement of biblical storytelling: meaningful omissions and lacunae, “story” as the seed of excited,...

Sonallah Ibrahim: Life in the Raw

April 16, 2013
Following the publication of a new translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's "That Smell," Maurice Chammah considers the book, and its...

Me and My Mat

March 29, 2013
Naturalized as an integral part of practice, the mass produced yoga mat is an illustrative example of niche commoditization...
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Pet Cemetery

March 29, 2013
As earlier memorials to bears and whales suggest, capitalism doesn’t diminish our need for ritual—it heightens it.

The Danger of Winning

March 25, 2013
By Ann Neumann Is a revisionist history of abortion rights being used--by journalists, supporters, and lawyers--to curtail Supreme Court...

An Amish Moment

March 22, 2013
Amish books and Amish baseball. Amish are clearly having a moment... again.

Miracles on Demand

March 22, 2013
Rowan Moore Gerety Few countries offer more fertile ground for a gospel of health and wealth than Mozambique, a...
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Homegrown Settlers

March 20, 2013
As President Obama makes his first visit to Israel today, Kiera Feldman examines Americans in the settlements... and their...

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