Burkina Faso was for years an oasis of religious tolerance and stability in West Africa. Now it’s mired in extremist violence. What went wrong?

How Burkina Faso, “the land of honest men,” caved to terrorism

Women in Afghanistan are expressing a desire for suicide, and experts say the situation is getting worse. 

Afghan women’s mental health is plummeting under the Taliban: “I feel so hopeless”

The growth of local gift economies isn’t just enabling low-waste lifestyles. It’s also bringing neighbors together in a time of isolation and hopelessness.

The Buy Nothing movement is restitching our social fabric, one gift at a time

Experts say expanding medically-assisted death to the mentally ill sends the wrong message — and will make access to resources in an already “crumbling” system more difficult. 

Euthanizing the vulnerable? Inside Canada’s debate to expand physician-assisted suicide

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Author Khaled Beydoun discusses his new book, “The New Crusades,” which explores the many faces of global Islamophobia — and their ties to the U.S.-led war on terror.

How America kickstarted the modern “crusades” of imperial Islamophobia

A foreign policy expert draws a line from the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to the emergence of al-Qaida, ISIS, Trump, China’s economic dominance and our climate inaction.

Viewpoint: The Iraq War was the biggest foreign policy disaster of the last 50 years

“Laïcité impacts French Muslims, descending on them like a plague that infects every sector of French society,” writes legal scholar Khaled Beydoun.

France can’t mask away its real plague: the pseudo-secularism that’s killing its own citizens

Evangelicals once saw themselves as caretakers of the natural world. Then political conservatives launched an anti-environmental crusade.

How evangelicals moved from supporting environmental stewardship to climate skepticism

Dozens of low-income senior women made this affordable rooming house in Boston, run by an order of Catholic nuns, their home. Then, one by one, they began receiving eviction notices. 

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