From ancient kings who disciplined errant monks to modern political battles over Gnanasara Thera, Sri Lanka’s history raises an uncomfortable question: should the saffron robe shield its wearer from accountability? The controversy
I first heard the word ‘depression’ when I was about sixteen. My mother took me to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India, to be seen by
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Chances are you’ve benefited from a nonprofit—whether by listening to public radio, adopting a pet from a shelter, attending a community arts event, or witnessing their support through local food pantries. Nonprofits
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The Serengeti—whose name means “endless plains” in the Maasai language—is one of the most renowned natural landscapes in the world. Spanning northern Tanzania and extending into southwestern Kenya, this vast ecosystem is home to
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When Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519, he encountered cities, markets, schools, courts, astronomers, and rulers — institutions strikingly familiar to those he had left behind in Spain. Two civilizations, separated
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Despite the diversity of government and social structures, every country today faces social and political tensions tied to concentrated and unaccountable power in the hands of national elites. The modern sociological concept
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just drawing cats or writing emails—it’s now writing genomes. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, say they have
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In a candid interview with Crux, the first American pope, Leo XIV, has voiced deep concerns over the widening income gap between executives and ordinary workers, calling into question the values underpinning
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Globally, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to “business self-regulation with the aim of being socially accountable.” From a broader perspective, this definition includes improving working conditions, reducing carbon footprints, participating in Fairtrade,
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The sun blazed over Jerusalem that day, a relentless heat pressing down on the ancient stones, yet as we stepped into Shalva—the Israel Association for Children with
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What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a
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Since late 2022, Honduras Próspera Inc. (HPI), a Delaware-based developer of a semi-autonomous zone on a Honduran island, has been locked in a nearly $11 billion legal battle with the Honduran government. After having its
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When Sunita Chauhan wed brothers Pradeep and Kapil Negi in July, videos of the wedding in Shillai, a remote village in India’s Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, quickly went viral. The ceremony,
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Artificial intelligence pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton has called on governments around the world to urgently collaborate in training AI systems to avoid harming humanity, warning that AI could
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The seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time this year coincided with a day of profound symbolism: the twenty-seventh of July, which the international community has dedicated to grandparents and the elderly. In a
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Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot, caught in an intimate moment on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, present a striking case study in the complex and
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