Anger, anxiety, acrimony: Slovaks weigh what led to Fico shooting

Hanlova/Bratislava, Slovakia Reuters Slovak opposition party leader Michal Simecka, who described an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico this week as an attack on democracy, said on Friday he that his wife and child had received death threats. His experience is not uncommon, a measure of the extreme political and personal animosities in Slovakia […]
Essay: Campus friendships can end a civil war before it starts

In an article first published on Religion News Service, PAUL BRANDEIS RAUSHENBUSH, senior adviser for public affairs and innovation at Interfaith Youth Core, looks at the role cultivating friendships – particularly with those who come from different worldviews – on universities and colleges can play in bringing together a divided America…