This is not just a festival unfolding in Kerala. On the banks of the Bharathapuzha river, history is being rewritten, and a new religious claim is taking shape.

For over 3,000 years, Jews have oriented their faith, culture, and identity toward Jerusalem. “Next year in Jerusalem” is not a metaphor but it is a declaration of continuity. Zionism did not begin in ...

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are just one week away and United Nations and Games organizers are urging a 7-week global ...

A newly analyzed rock panel reveals how early Egypt asserted power beyond the Nile, using violence, symbolism, and resources ...

Two professors of sociology at Florida International University write that top-down decisions on how and what they can teach do not represent the ideals of higher education.

At a global conference, India highlighted its 3000-year democratic legacy, from Vedic assemblies to 10th-century village ...

Ancient Greek coins acted as a version of social media, broadcasting political power and national identity to every level of ...

This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

For years, a rumor has circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump once claimed that Italy and the United States have ...

Prologue In the early 1970s, I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Adamantios Koraes at the University of Wisconsin. I read his ...

The history of ancient Greece teaches us that the lasting formula for maintaining and sustaining global power over time is through mutually beneficial alliances, not brute strength and coercion.