The Bizarre Story Behind Shinzo Abe’s Assassination - The Atlantic
Wild. Unrelated: the last samurai came out in 2003.
Pakistani Women Are Not All Right | The New Yorker
The country’s annual march for women’s rights was a defiant act of self-assertion that once again sparked panic and condemnation from conservatives.
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth - POLITICO
White evangelicals in the 1970s didn’t initially care about abortion. They organized to defend racial segregation in evangelical institutions — and only seized on banning abortion because it was more palatable than their real goal.
Eostre: The Making of a Myth
Eostre: The Making of a Myth Note to those who've read it before: Part 2 is now up! Last Easter and the Easter before that, and for several more Easters, a story circulated both among neopagans and those they wished to educate. It concerned the origin of the Easter Bunny. The story goes something…
Easter, Ishtar and Eostre
Some New Atheists have latched onto memes claiming "Easter" and its customs are stolen from paganism. But is just another case of them not checking facts?
Hijab ban: How the dreams of young Muslim women in Karnataka were shattered
Young Muslim women in Karnataka recount how a court order legitimised Hindutva prejudice and locked them out of an education.