This post is addressed to the folks on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ staff. During the recent 2023 Essence Festival of Culture, the Vice President was asked how she defined “culture.” Here is her ...

We encounter failure in our daily lives. Failures can be as trivial as spilling a coffee or missing an appointment, and as consequential as failing a job interview or losing a major competition. How ...

Starting with the cultural domain of illness and considering the issue of cross-cultural comparisons at the level of meaning, this article discusses the cognitive anthropological approach taken in my ...

Svitlana Taran says she started stitching a traditional embroidered Ukrainian shirt as Ukraine faced the threat of Russian ...

In a world where hostility is rewarded with attention and controversy becomes viral within moments, how do we hold space for the opposing opinion? What does it mean for one to be “cancelled”? Can we ...

Commenting on the celebration of Mother’s Day in Argentina, Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata said this week “the culture of extreme feminism, which is a culture of death and destruction of the ...

You have an average of eight hours to spend with family and friends each workday, according to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which report averages of eight ...