A professor of history, Toyin Falola, has warned Nigerian politicians and other stakeholders against using religion as a weapon to promote disunity and crisis in the country. Falola, who is regarded ...

WASHINGTON—The hard lines that both parties have drawn on the government shutdown are starting to soften, with the specter of financial hardships for federal workers and lower-income households ...

Rabbi Danny Schiff had a rule: no national letters. The community scholar of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh avoided open statements about far-off politics. But this month, he broke that ...