The House on Wednesday voted to pass its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, with a bipartisan amendment to repeal the two laws authorizing the use of military force (AUMF) in Iraq.

Hashem is merciful – are we showing mercy? He doesn’t repay evil with evil – do we hold back and try to give kindness even when it isn’t deserved? He is slow to anger – are we working on pat ...

Dan Brown’s new book, 'The Secret of Secrets,' is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a ...

Good teachers do not tell students what to think,' columnist Susan Campbell writes as she begins semester teaching ...

In the Talmud, Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) begins by saying, “Be deliberate in judgment” ( Pirkei Avot 1:1 ). A few verses later, Joshua ben Perahiah says to judge everyone favorably ( Pirkei ...

The Personal Status Law, adopted in 1959, has been amended to allow Iraqis to choose whether they want their marriages governed by Sunni law or the Jaafari Code, in accordance with Shiite law. Once ...

Every day at Woodlands Elementary School in Ponca City, Okla., our beloved principal would shush the cafeteria and lead us in a lunchtime prayer. My friends and I affirmed this sacred act by seeing ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

A new BritBox series centers on a deaf woman who works in a police station, and whose lip-reading abilities come in handy when the precinct needs help interpreting surveillance footage. This is FRESH ...

As a scholarly contribution to a better understanding of the role that the law has played in the development of modern medical practice, Spector's "Garrison Lecture"* of 1952 rates high. Going back ...

In 2022, this series was expanded into a book, edited by Torie Bosch. Read “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World here. Back in 2009, Facebook launched a ...