In late January, nearly 600 students and faculty members gathered at White Plaza as part of a coordinated national walkout to protest the Trump administration’s violent deployment of Immigration and ...

We live in a world full of suffering—it would be difficult for anyone to spend even a few moments reading through news headlines and argue against that. How we choose to respond to the difficult ...

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been ...

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(RNS) — Americans seem to disagree about almost everything these days. Five minutes on social media, cable news or at a tense holiday dinner make that obvious. Still, now and then, a small patch of ...

There’s a scene from a movie I can’t get out of my head. It’s from a 2021 film called “Don’t Look Up,” not my idea of a cinematic classic. It’s a dark comedy about the end of the world, an allegory ...

If you could open my head like a cookie jar, there’s a good chance that the logline for Amanda Kramer’s stunning new film, “By Design” — “A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her ...

The evening of Nov. 5th, 2024, my group of friends and I got together after school to watch the presidential election. I remember walking into my friend’s house feeling hopeful for the future.

In today's world—where everything feels like a full-blown crisis—apathy might sound downright blissful. Yet, a psychologist warns that not caring can be a red flag in intimate relationships. In fact, ...

(RNS) — Elon Musk, a massive donor to President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and a key player early in the second Trump administration, told Joe Rogan last year, as he was DOGE-ing the federal ...

Find today’s readings here. Elon Musk, speaking last year on the Joe Rogan podcast from which apparently all contemporary wisdom flows, shared what I’m sure he considered a devastating and astute ...