Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down. “My decoration said ‘Happy ...

CARL ROSEhas illustrated the Atlantic’s Accent on Living pages for the past, twelve years. His article “Europe Instantly!" appeared in these pages just a year ago. IN THE Atlantic Report on the World ...

Long before the phrase “women’s lib” made its way into American consciousness, a group of genteel ladies from the South put their money together to build a women’s dormitory at Vanderbilt University.

Over the past decade, as the Asian diaspora has grown in North America, the call to reclaim the swastika as a sacred symbol has become louder. These minority faith communities are being joined by ...

(AP) — The symbol is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune, and was also used widely by Indigenous people worldwide in a similar vein.