On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach ...

Anime often explores spiritual and philosophical questions by drawing on Japan’s religious traditions to examine themes of ...

Religious liberty was never meant to be an all-access pass to ignore civil rights. But today, that is exactly what it has ...

There was a time when the moral compass of American society pointed, however imperfectly, toward justice. Atrocities abroad ...

China descended into chaos under the direction of its own leader in 1966. Mao Zedong, facing diminished influence after the ...

Trump also reinforces distrust in the institutions meant to challenge the lie. He paints the press as enemies of the people, calls government agencies part of a deep state, and accuses courts of bias.

It is a contradiction of numbers that reveals a deep cultural divide: Transgender people make up less than 1% of the U.S.

The 1924 “Bonus Act,” which Congress passed after overruling Calvin Coolidge’s presidential veto, offered WWI veterans a ...

In the “sacramental shame” dynamic, churches require LGBTQ+ people to feel and display shame as the sign that they have not ...

What the U.S. faces is not just a question of tactical readiness, but structural incompatibility with the type of war now ...

About half of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling transgender issues, according to a new poll, a ...