By Peg Ryan Mile High Pilates and Yoga Recently I heard a story about a meditation teacher addressing a class. He asked his students to demonstrate how they feel space. Immediately every student raised their hands into the air. The teacher laughed. He said, “You don’t need to […]
Judgment of the Nations by Rev. Dustin Bartlett Our nation’s budget is a moral document. It reflects the values of the country. It demonstrates where our priorities lie. It tells the story of who we are, and who we want to be. The budget proposed by the […]
EU court allows companies to ban headscarves. What will be the impact on Muslim women? Z. Fareen Parvez University of Massachusetts Amherst The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that interprets EU law issued a landmark judgment on March 14 that upheld the right of private […]
Gabrielle Hosein, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival, which recently ended its 2017 rendition, is an event as contradictory as it is extraordinary. No mere mimicry of other such celebrations in Rio de Janeiro or New Orleans, Carnival on this Caribbean […]
By Peg Ryan Mile High Pilates and Yoga March 12, 2017 There are times in all of our lives when we need a little help from our friends. Yet some of us have a hard time acknowledging that. Last week I was talking with a friend who […]
Virginia García Beaudoux University of Buenos Aires March 8, 2017 In my work as a gender and communications specialist I have met – and in some cases professionally advised – female ministers, legislators, mayors, community leaders and judges across the world, from the Dominican Republic and Honduras to […]
March 7, 2017 WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. today announced that China’s Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd., known collectively as ZTE, has agreed to a record-high combined civil and criminal penalty of $1.19 billion, pending approval from the […]
By Dan Rather March 2, 2017 Every once in a while in Washington, the fuse is lit for what seems to be a big scandal. Much more rarely does that fuse lead to an explosion of the magnitude we are seeing with Russia and the new Administration, and […]
March 2, 2017 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The South Dakota Democratic Party released the following statement in response to reports that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath about meeting with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and that Trump associates and Putin associates had multiple in-person […]
By David W. Stowe Michigan State University February 11, 2017 This Saturday, Feb. 11, many Jews will celebrate Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Singing, which commemorates one of the most vivid musical performances in the Hebrew Bible: the songs sung by Moses and his sister Miriam to celebrate […]
