Source: The Guardian BY Noor Gillani Allegations of abuse, humiliation and deprivation by prison staff have been made by Muslim inmates at a correction centre in Brisbane. The Islamic Council of […]
Source: The Guardian We write to express our deep concern at the actions of senior figures within the University of Manchester in relation to an event organised by the student […]
Source: Time BY Jeffrey Kluger Oct 15, 2017 William of Occam would have hated conspiracy theories. A 14th-century philosopher and Franciscan friar, William is celebrated for developing the “law of […]
Source: Time ‘She broke the glass ceiling.’ What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There […]
Source: Time A Vatican court has convicted the former president of the pope’s children’s hospital of abuse of office for diverting $500,000 in donations to renovate a cardinal’s flat and sentenced him to a suspended one-year sentence. The court on Saturday absolved the former treasurer of the Bambino Gesu children’s […]
Source: BBC News Forty people have died and hundreds are still missing in California after six days of wildfires that have devastated swathes of countryside and destroyed thousands of homes. […]
Source: Time BY Anthea Levi / Health.com There’s no way around it: A happy relationship takes hard work. And in his new book The All-or-Nothing Marriage ($28, amazon.com), psychologist Eli Finkel tells you what […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Cady Mansell is the kind of girl who loves superheroes, hates itchy skirts, and likes to put on lipstick and nail polish. The 9-year-old […]
Source: BBC News Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves. The discovery raises new questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR Mohammad Mobin smiles on Feb. 1 after greeting his sister’s family, who had arrived as refugees from Afghanistan at an air base near Omaha, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY RICHARD FRY In the past 10 years, the share of U.S. adults living without a spouse or partner has climbed to 42%, up from 39% in […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY KRISTEN BIALIK Although the overall U.S. poverty rate declined and incomes rose rapidly for the second straight year in 2016, many poor Americans fell deeper into […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER AND CARY FUNK Women in the U.S. are substantially more likely than men to say gender discrimination is a major problem in the technology industry, according […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BAXTER OLIPHANT AND JOHN GRAMLICH Large majorities of Americans support several specific policies intended to limit access to guns, including expanded background checks and restrictions on sales to the mentally […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DREW DESILVER As Congress and the White House pivot from trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act to overhauling the U.S. tax code, it’s helpful to take a closer […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY MARK STRAUSS When Americans are asked what has brought the biggest improvement to their lives in the past five decades, they name technology more than any […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JOHN GRAMLICH Americans are apprehensive about a future in which machines take on more of the work now done by humans, and most are supportive of […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM Five years ago today, Taliban gunmen tried to kill Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan in response to her advocacy of education for girls. The Taliban justified the attack […]
Source: BBC News British IS recruiter Sally-Anne Jones was reportedly killed in a US drone strike in Syria, in June. Jones, from Chatham in Kent, joined so-called Islamic State after […]
Source: BBC News Hamas and Fatah have signed a landmark reconciliation deal in Cairo in a key step towards ending a decade-long rift between the two Palestinian factions. The deal […]