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“Things that take place in the home they call crime,” President Donald Trump said recently at Washington’s Museum of The Bible. Further diminishing the impact of domestic violence, he continued, “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime.” This was days before Yesennia Rocha, a California mother of two, […]

Harvard is preparing for its four-hundredth anniversary in 2036, just as the federal government is trying to eviscerate higher education. Unfortunately, Harvard shows signs of succumbing to the government’s lawless pressure, as Columbia and Brown have already done. Fortunately, today a judge found the government’s spending freeze unconstitutional. But Harvard still has another card it could play: To ensure its […]

When people think of South Korea today, they increasingly associate it with culture—particularly the global sensation of K-pop, popular television dramas, and cuisine. Music groups like BTS and Stray Kids are leading the wave of South Korean K-pop. South Korean entertainment serves as a form of diplomacy. One problem is that the South Korean government […]

The summer I turned sixteen, I played internationally competitive lacrosse for the Swedish National Women’s Lacrosse Team. Though I live in Connecticut, I have been steeped in Swedish culture from birth thanks to my mom, who was born and raised in Sweden. That cultural connection inspired me to join this European team, where I was […]

Recently on my way to the Detroit airport, I noticed a sign on the bus: “Please use earbuds or headphones to further limit noise.” Not a single person was talking; it was a silent ride, but what struck me was the assumption that the sound of people talking on the phone was unwanted. Had we […]

The night my family lost a loved one, we were still catching our breath in the shock of grief when the emails came. Newsrooms sent polished condolences followed immediately by requests: legacy statements, a quick quote before 3 p.m., just a few minutes on camera. They asked for access, not truth. They wanted our pain […]

Europe long imagined Jews as strangers — tolerated but never at home. Yet Jewish life in Europe was not imported. It was constructed. Jews were assigned a role and sustained as part of Europe’s own ecosystem [1]. A powerful myth holds that the Judeans possessed a unique genius, a moral law unlike any other. In […]

Fibroblasts—as much or even more than stem cells—look like the key to new and transformational treatments of chronic diseases, including multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.  This reality represents a paradigm shift that will impact medicine in dramatically and positive ways. Publications have indicated that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and fibroblasts share many surface markers in […]

In the seminal science fiction classic novel by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, an interstellar asteroid is detected entering our solar system in the year 2131 by an Earth-based early warning system called “Project Spaceguard”.  The object is given the name “Rama”, after the Hindu deity.  An unmanned probe, Sita, is sent to investigate Rama and astonishingly discovers […]

I didn’t set out to study nonviolence. Like many, I stumbled upon it in fragments, quotes that refused to leave me, the persistent sense that some ancient wisdom was trying to cut through the noise of our modern world. Over time, through teaching, crisis counseling, community organizing, and meditation, I’ve come to a radical realization: […]