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Religious people have to reconcile themselves to ignore what the Bible says about gay people—the same way they ignore what the Bible says about polyester, lobster, figs, and women.

The first African-American grandmaster traces his obsession with chess to a high school friend who kept crushing him at the game.

The game trains you to focus on what your opponent is thinking and planning—a discipline that is useful on the chessboard and in the boardroom.

“It’s a discipline that you practice,” says the Jamaican-born grandmaster, “and you can’t help but develop your mental powers.”

The top African-American chess player defied the conventional wisdom that you need to learn the game in preschool to become a grandmaster.

Players from Brooklyn want “to rip your heart out, cook it, and eat it later.”

The post-WW2 generation has often been portrayed as narcissistic and self-centered—but that’s a bit of a bum rap.

Most families today need more than one incomes to be part of the middle class. That is a huge transformation that puts a strain on all kinds of families.

Most women say they feel misunderstood by marketers, even though they represent 83% of all consumer purchases today—including big-ticket items such as cars and houses.

Over the past 30 years, inflation-adjusted income levels have remained flat for men. Women, on the other hand, have seen their incomes grow exponentially.

Everyone has freedom to choose what kind of person he or she wants to be. We can live like cockroaches and feed on rubbish—or like eagles, who fly very high.

Over 4 million people are displaced in Colombia because of war; both the rightist paramilitary and the leftist guerillas steal land to make themselves richer.

“I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do—changing the way politics were being done in Colombia—was not possible the way I wanted to do […]

Some of Betancourt’s fellow captives were critical of her behavior in their memoir. “I don’t want to judge them because I think we all are entitled to our truth and […]

In order to respect herself and to keep hold of her sanity, Betancourt refused to follow her guards’ orders. When you’re obliged to do things you don’t want to do, […]

During her six years in captivity, the former Colombian presidential candidate learned that those who are stripped of power lash out against those who are equally powerless—just like children in […]

A conversation with the former Colombian presidential candidate and political hostage.

Symbols like the pentagram, the eye in the pyramid, and astrological symbols have a certain magnetic power. Rapper Jay-Z uses these images not because he believes in them, but because […]

The author gives a brief history of the Ouija Board, the wildly popular artifact that came out of the spiritualist movement and captivated America for a century. It is now […]

People need modern doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas, and alternative spiritualities like the occultism and new ageism do just that, says the author.

Rather than discrediting the occult, recent scientific discoveries in quantum physics seem to reaffirm a place for mystical ideas. But the author cautions both sides not to jump to hasty […]

Historical records suggest that President Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd may have held two séances to contact their dead son Willie. But even if these stories are not true, […]

The author gives a history of occultism’s influence on American politics, explaining its deep-seated ties to liberalism and feminism.

America has always been a magnet for those fleeing religious persecution, particularly those displaced by the Thirty Years War and the backlash against the religious liberalism of the Renaissance.

Some people think it’s something diabolical; others think it’s a mélange of superstition and nonsense. In truth, it’s neither of these things.

Aside from the immediate need to protect victims and stabilize society, it is also necessary to look down the road toward bringing perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.

In the Congo, widespread rape has created conditions for women where there is “no joy, no love, no concept of what we would think was a dignified life.”

In the Democratic Republic of Congo sexual violence against women runs rampant, leaving the civil population very exposed and under constant threat in and around mining towns.

A conversation with the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence and Conflict.