Americas

Whose sarin?

by Seymour M. Hersh You are invited to read this free essay from the London Review of Books. Subscribe now to access every article from every fortnightly issue of the London Review of Books, including the entire LRB archive of over 12,500 essays and reviews. Barack Obama did not tell […]

Polygyny: Is It Fair?

By Aishah Schwartz …………….. Today polygyny is seen as an exception rather than a rule, and indeed, this is true, as it takes an exceptional man to navigate its oftentimes tumultuous waters. But the Quran and Sunnah do not leave men ill-equipped when making a decision toward polygyny, or in […]

Internet Firms Step Up Efforts to Stop Spying

SAN FRANCISCO — When Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief executive, recently announced the company’s biggest security overhaul in more than a decade, she did not exactly receive a standing ovation. Ordinary users asked Ms. Mayer why Yahoo was not doing more. Privacy activists were more blunt. “Even after today’s announcement, Yahoo […]

USA as a Christian nation

Source: thenewsstar.com The view that the United States never claimed to be a “Christian nation” has become prevalent and expected. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In a previous letter, I provided quotes from Founding Fathers showing otherwise. The following are passages from a number of the original state constitutions. […]

Ancient Manuscripts to go Online

Huff Post — VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library have put the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts online. The two libraries in 2012 announced a four-year project to digitize some of the most important works of their collections of Hebrew manuscripts, […]

The Mystery of God and the Brain

Huff Post: by Deepak Chopra — To summarize the situation, we have three mysteries that we do not understand: the unpredictable movements of atoms, the existence of our own consciousness, and the friendliness of the universe to life and mind. I am only saying that the three mysteries are probably […]

Tip for Jesus!

Source: daily dot com´: Since September, one person has left more than $54,000 worth of gratuity at restaurants around the country—crazy tips, like $1,000 on a $152 tab. Who is this good Samaritan? All we know is that he or she goes by tipsforjesus on Instagram. More: