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Donald Trump often professes to be a Christian, but what do his background, his words, and his deeds tell us about his religious beliefs?

The water crisis is foreseeable, but technology to solve the impending problem is already in the works. Here are three ways of using technology to save us from a water crisis.

Many mental health professionals have publicly noted their concerns about Donald Trump’s mental health. There appear to be many different, but overlapping conditions, to describe his behavior.

The Johnson Amendment is part of the tax code. It protects both churches and society by prohibiting churches from endorsing political candidates.

There are many effective ways in which school students can raise funds for charities and help local and global communities. This article contains a list of ideas.

This article endeavors to explain why prejudice against white people isn't the same as prejudice against people of color.

GOP outreach to African Americans will be ineffective until the party stops doing the things that push them away.

If evolution has sped up to the extent that it has affected our racial, sexual and gender issues does that mean the libertarian philosophy will evolve faster too?

Thousands of charities across the globe launch appeals for donations year-round, but these efforts really pick up steam around Christmastime. The best recipient of your money, though, may not always be the one that’s flooding your inbox or popping up in your newsfeed.

In the novel 1984, Orwell creates a world where government surveillance is constant. Similarly, it now seems our privacy rights are also limited. Yet in both cases, it is the people who permit it.

A large percentage of prisoners that are incarcerated have committed crimes as a result of their mental illnesses or addictions. Can spotting mental health problems earlier in our Latino community help prevent crime?

Former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s 1992 essay, "Reflections on the Quincentenary" gives a useful glimpse of the history of the native and European clash of cultures. He does not put a happy face on the situation, but neither does he try to make it worse than it was.

Why do people put down wild animals in captivity while being perfectly fine with domesticated animals in human control? Are domesticated animals really that different from exotic animals?

Left realist attitudes towards crime and how to tackle it have been reflected in government policies, but how effective have they been at developing our understanding of crime and deviance?

Because the Republican Party was founded to abolish slavery, the Democratic Party hijacked the issue, turning racism into a Republican problem by claiming that the parties switched sides on race.

This article addresses blackface costumes and the history of blackface in the U.S. Conversations about blackface tend to increase during Halloween because some people still wear blackface and fail to understand that doing so is racist.