A basic tenet of the Advaita (non-dualist) Hindu philosophy of Shankara holds, “If saguna points to brahman’s immanence, nirguna points to ...

Speaking at Harvard in late September, 2024, Noeleen Heyzer, a former undersecretary and later a special envoy of the UN, related the need f...

On September 20, 2024, it was announced that the E.U. would “raise a €35 billion loan to support the Ukrainian economy and military.” [1] A...

I contend that the core of religion is its quality of transcendence beyond the limits of human thought, perception, and emotion. This is not...

One of benefits of the market mechanism, by which, for example, economic goods are bought and sold, is that self-interest is relied on; peop...

Two years after the government of Texas in the U.S. began transferring migrants to other states and to Washington D.C., the government of Hu...

On a trip to Indonesia in early September, 2024, Pope Francis signed a declaration on religious harmony and environmental protection at ...

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While it may be tempting to go after companies for hypocrisy on corporate social responsibility, even deeper criticism may be closer to the ...

On August 22, 2024, Bart De Wever of the New Flemish Alliance group in Belgium resigned as his efforts to form a government had stalled. His...

With rents and the price of houses being historically high in 2024 in the E.U., it is no surprise that housing was a salient issue in the E....

Increasing integration of the global financial and business sectors and the global need to combat climate change by restricting carbon emiss...

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The probable impacts of climate change are anything but straightforward, and thus predictable. From the standpoint of mid-2024, huge changes...