With an emphatic and delicate view toward religion and spirituality, author Mirabai Starr plans to enhance the view of “Dark Night of the Soul,” a
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Photos of cacti with a backdrop of a brilliant blue, a starry sky contrasted against aerial photos of nighttime Chicago sliced into a grid by
Jim Richardson, longtime ‘Nat’l Geographic’ photographer, to share shots illuminating ‘End of Night’
Amid the red tomatoes and pale yellow ears of corn at the county fair, Jim Richardson, National Geographic photographer, won his first photography award: a
Everyone struggles with something; whether it’s physically, mentally or spiritually, there’s always going to be that looming, anxiety-inducing challenge of how to love one another.
Wajahat Ali, a Muslim whose parents immigrated from Pakistan in the ’80s, defied the expectation of his peers. They did not expect him to become
Lee Drutman’s closing lecture of the Week Five Chautauqua Lecture Series theme on “The Vote and Democracy” was titled “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop.” And
Week Five’s Interfaith Lecture Series theme is “The Ethical Foundations of a Fully Functioning Democracy,” but Anthea Butler called into question if those foundations were
A Democrat voting for a Republican, or vice versa, seems to Lee Drutman like an impossible chasm to cross these days. What can America build
With one foot in the door of the American dream, and one in the American nightmare, Wajahat Ali’s myriad experiences have led him down the
Where the United States draws the line in election law has never been more important to the preservation of democracy — especially when it comes
The nature of democracy, which puts the power of governance in the hands of the people, requires citizens to trust each other. Yet, this current
People often question what their role is, if they’re doing enough, and what they could improve on to be a productive member of society. Anthea
According to Michael Li, there’s a battle being waged in the United States, and it’s happening all around us: redistricting. “We completed the latest round
Right off the bat, American democracy is not playing the same softball game it was back in 1776, as Jelani Cobb, historian, Peabody Award winner,
When Linda Chavez was running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1986, the campaign trail brought her to Cumberland, Maryland — a small city
In 2018, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb first came to Chautauqua Institution to speak about “we the people” during a week themed “American Identity.”