Drought is drying up farms across Afghanistan, cracking the earth and threatening the only way of life the majority has ever known. It's in the fields where a new war is being waged between two forces the people can't control: climate change and terrorism. But, as special correspondent Beth Murphy o...

At his first monlam in the West, Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje bucks tradition for nuns and says he is working to end his school's divide.

In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly – but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right

Whether your transcendent state involves a church, nature, or a stadium full of sports fans, it appears to have the same effect on the brain.

The official death count for Hurricane Maria stands at 64 in Puerto Rico. New research shows that number is hugely flawed, and that the real death toll could be up to 70 times higher. The revised count would make Maria the deadliest storm in modern U.S. history.

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Dharma guides pedagogy at The Middle Way School in Woodstock.

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A new study finds that a school-based yoga program improves third graders’ emotional and psychosocial quality of life.

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Stephen Batchelor offers a brief lesson on developing the radical attention necessary to experience the everyday sublime in our lives.