| Tangle of church and state roils Ukraine's Orthodox parishes Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:56 PM PDT ![Tangle of church and state roils Ukraine's Orthodox parishes]( "Tangle of church and state roils Ukraine's Orthodox parishes") Boris Kovalchuk arrived in this small agricultural village, about 30 miles from Kiev, straight out of the Kiev Spiritual Academy 19 years ago. The new church, created on the basis of a charter granted by the patriarch in Constantinople and heavily backed by President Petro Poroshenko, is meant to reduce the influence of the traditional Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which owes spiritual allegiance to the patriarch in Moscow (UOC-MP). It's an issue that is often discussed in the language of geopolitics and national aspirations, exacerbated over the past five years by Ukraine's conflict with Russia.
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| 20 years after Columbine: one parent’s reflection Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:12 PM PDT ![20 years after Columbine: one parent's reflection]( "20 years after Columbine: one parent's reflection") When news of the Columbine shooting broke, I was sitting in a restaurant in Moab, Utah, on spring break from the Colorado high school where I was teaching that year. When I returned to campus – an alternative residential high school in Estes Park – a few days later, we held a moment of silence for Columbine High School during the first all-school gathering.
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| Should the census ask about citizenship? Supreme Court to weigh in Posted: 17 Apr 2019 12:44 PM PDT ![Should the census ask about citizenship? Supreme Court to weigh in]( "Should the census ask about citizenship? Supreme Court to weigh in") On April 23, the high court will weigh whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted lawfully in deciding to reinstate a citizenship question in the census.How did we get here? Last year, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced he would reinstate a citizenship question for the 2020 census. The U.S. Census Bureau, a nonpartisan agency, has not asked the question on the decennial census since 1950 (though it has asked a small subset of the population in the annual American Community Survey).
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| In Jordan, a place for animals to forget the trauma of war Posted: 17 Apr 2019 12:11 PM PDT ![In Jordan, a place for animals to forget the trauma of war]( "In Jordan, a place for animals to forget the trauma of war") Hamzeh has begun to build a new life in northern Jordan two years after fleeing his war-torn home country of Syria. Like many of the 1.2 million Syrians who have sought refuge in Jordan since 2012, Hamzeh has been given shelter and adjusted to a new climate and cuisine. At the Al Ma'wa Wildlife Reserve, 30 miles northwest of Amman, Jordan and wildlife advocates are providing both a home and hope for the forgotten victims of the region's wars: endangered wildlife.
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