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By Myriam Renaud, Affiliated Faculty of Contemporary World Religions, Union Institute & University Author Salman Rushdie is in the hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed by a man at an arts festival in New York State on August 12, 2022. The following article was published on the 30th anniversary of the release of The Satanic Verses. One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations all over the world, some of them violent. A year later, in 1989,...

By Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics; Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, Georgia State University The FBI recovered confidential and top-secret items from Mar-a-Lago during its August 8, 2022, search of the estate, pointing to former President Donald Trump’s potential violation of several federal laws. A Florida federal judge – the same one who issued the warrant to search Trump’s estate – ordered on August 12, 2022, that the document be made public – along with an inventory of items seized during the FBI’s raid. The unsealed documents seem to indicate...

By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis On June 17, 1972, Washington DC, police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “third-rate burglary,” its scope would grow to consume Richard Nixon’s presidency and then bring it to an end 26 months later. As with other infamous episodes, such as the Teapot Dome scandal or the Chappaquiddick tragedy, the event would come to be known by the place where it occurred. But unlike those two precedents,...