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THE YEAR 2500: A RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
An Extrapolation Based on Current Trajectories and Historical Patterns INTRODUCTION: WHY 2500 IS THE CRUCIAL BENCHMARK Let me be precise about why I’m choosing the year 2500—nearly 500 years from now—as the analytical endpoint. It’s not arbitrary. Five centuries is exactly the timeframe in which we can observe complete religious transformations historically: In 1525, the…
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A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries.
Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads.
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2025 Halloween Candy Trends
This year’s Halloween candy sales suggest that Americans are feeling divided, strapped and in need of a (mild) surprise or two.
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Squirrels want to eat your pumpkins. You can stop them.
These simple tricks will help keep the pesky rodents from feasting on your fall decor
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Companies Have Shielded Buyers From Tariffs. But Not for Long.
Cars, toys and tea are among products set to get more expensive as tariffs weigh on corporate profits.
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AWS Cloud-Computing Outage Left Smart Bed Customers Without Sleep
The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services was particularly disruptive ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: People who just wanted to sleep well.
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What to know about the report.
The Consumer Price Index for September, released late because of the government shutdown, may reflect the effects of President Trump’s tariffs on a wide variety of imported products.
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Hollywood Weeps as Warner Bros. Hangs a Sale Sign
Losing the stand-alone studio, suddenly a real possibility, would be “heartbreaking,” one producer said.
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U.S. Diplomats Will Work With Troops to Maintain Gaza Cease-Fire, Rubio Says
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a visit to Israel that the State Department would increase its presence at a center set up to monitor the peace deal.
