"Many politicians and some students have lacked the courage to say what one, like myself, of foreign descent should frankly assert and defend — that this is, and must remain, an essentially and ...

Most H1-B visa holders are of Indian and Asian origin; this has created a large backlog of H-1B holders with little prospect of citizenship due to the current structure of our immigration system, ...

That the mind lives in the brain, the brain lives in the body and the body lives in a community is the key to understanding mental health in all cultural contexts. Ethan Watters makes several ...

Large crowds of protestors have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv over the past week to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to overhaul Israel's judicial system. Trade unions, along with ...

One of the unintended consequences of the Tsarnayev brothers’ decision to strike at the Boston Marathon with homemade explosive devices may be its impact on the national debate on immigration. Already ...

Setting down my heavy, chock-full plate, I took off my jacket and sat down next to Chen, my friend from China. As usual, she was enjoying a wok dish of fried noodles with chicken and vegetables. I ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rachel Donadio, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, about French politican Benjamin Griveaux's sex scandal and the cultural impact of his resignation. Now to a ...

An entire generation of American Jews — and Americans generally — were riveted by the 1958 best-selling novel, “Exodus,” and by the blockbuster movie two years later. Mining the “Wild West” genre, ...

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A controversial soccer competition proposed in Europe this week was blasted as the Americanization of the so-called Beautiful Game. But while some fans slung blame at the U.S., in part because several ...