The spiritual is celebrated in American culture and beyond.

Ahmed Abdullah is Dick Gordon's former fixer and translator based in Baghdad.

A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature of fundamentalism, and the decline of America's mainline Protestant majority as Evangelical Christianity gains in influence.

In honor of Black History Month, Audible is proud to offer a collection of superb original recordings featuring some of the most influential voices in African-American history....

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Most children can be volatile at some point in their development, with no particular cause for worry.

Follow Russian writer Aleksandr Radishchev's 200-year-old footsteps from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and discover the soul of a people and the character of a nation....

After 30 years, America's War on drugs costs U.S. taxpayers $40 billion a year with no victory in sight....

During the war in Kosovo in 1999, war-crimes investigators suspected that Serbian forces were hiding evidence of atrocities by removing bodies...

Across the country this year, partisan redrawing of districts was so effective that many incumbents ran virtually unopposed....

Not long ago, scientists discovered that the Earth's climate is capable of changing abruptly, as if a switch were flipped, instead of slowly over hundreds or thousands of years....

The nation's swelling inmate population has turned imprisonment into a $50 billion-a-year industry....

Within the living memory of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States....

How do jurors decide who should live and who should die....

An unlikely corporation, McDonald's, has taken the lead in the campaign for animal welfare....

The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested....

The military victory in Iraq was stunning and swift, but months after the fall of Baghdad, the U.S. military is still fighting....

Why are so many mentally ill Americans behind bars....

From the trials of Nazis at Nuremberg to the prosecution of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, to people's courts in Rwanda....

To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty years ago...

Supermax prisons are icons of America?s tough penal system....

In 1999, Serb death squads attacked the ethnic Albanian village of Cuska and left 41 unarmed civilians dead....

In 1927, Iran developed a legal code doing away with gruesome Islamic punishments such as stoning and lashing....

In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, the U.S. government has embraced new tools and new powers to track the movements of people within America's borders...

In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism....