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Sex can cause "all sorts of ruckus in all sorts of lives on an endless basis." That's why religions make a point of regulating it.
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"People who are religious might well be healthier because they help each other more."
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Believing in God generates soothing "juices" in the brain that make us feel good.
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A conversation with the Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
There is a palpable sense of relief amongst many in the Labour Party that Gordon Brown finally acknowledged the inevitable and stood down, after it became apparent that there could […]
What does the Tea Party Movement in the U.S. have in common with the right-wing backlash against immigrants in Europe? Bard College professor Ian Buruma says they are both part […]
When Mario Lavandeira, a.k.a. Perez Hilton, started his blog PageSixSixSix.com in 2004, he says he imagined that maybe a few of his friends would read his musings on tabloid gossip […]
Chess makes for strange bed fellows. Last night at a party at the Trump SoHo hotel in downtown Manhattan, two former world chess champions, Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov, put […]
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Control the things you can about your diet and environment, and get politically active around the things you can’t.
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One in three babies is delivered via Caesarian section. "This is unacceptable and of course it’s going to produce harm."
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Mainstream media messages lead us to be totally dissatisfied with who and what we are—and make us into consumers of products and procedures rather than contributors to our community.
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How women should think about their role in a society where prescriptions are everywhere.
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When the collective started forty years ago, there was a "knowledge gap" and a dearth of information about women's health issues.
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A conversation with the Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
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Many Muslims feel excluded from Europe’s political process, yet the internal divisions of Islam have prevented believers from making common cause.
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How America’s Tea Party movement connects to the larger anxieties about globalization.
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Looking for a model of successful multiculturalism? You could do worse than former European colonies such as India and Indonesia.
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If the French political thinker and historian returned to the modern-day U.S., he would find that some of his most pessimistic predictions have come true.
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The history of religion and immigration in the U.S. has made us more receptive to outside faiths. But, of course, our true religion is entrepreneurship.
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"People see religion as a challenge again to liberalism and democracy." The "Taming the Gods" author sees that issue as grist for writing.