Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

In the first Book of Samuel, the prophet delivers a clear command from God to King Saul: Utterly destroy the Amalekites, a vicious enemy of Israel, and leave nothing alive — not man, woman, child, or ...

A protest outside a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Utah on Wednesday ended with tensions high, after a handful of demonstrators committed vandalism. Hundreds gathered for the ...