Cringe: another awful week for Kamala

Kamala D. Harris campaign in tatters as she’s smashed during another ‘awful’ week

I can do better alone than with G-Joe Biden

(Sky News Australia) Grey (b/w) Democrat Kamala Devi Harris’s campaign is in tatters after consecutive weeks of disastrous gaffes, stumbles, and mumbles on the campaign trail. Sky News All Stars James Morrow, Joe Hildebrand, and Danica De Giorgio take a look at Kamala’s latest word salads and ask if she’s ruined her chances at election victory for women, Blacks, Indians, and Democrats.

• Sky News All Stars, Sky News Australia, 10/20/24; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Origins of Religion (PRI)

A study of the origins of the world's great religions reveals surprising ideas about God and how we define religion.

A study of the origins of the world's great religions reveals surprising ideas about God and how we define religion.

• LISTEN NOW (Public Radio International)

The following is a partial transcript; listen to audio for full story.

Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. When her breakthrough book, "A History of God" appeared in 1993, she quickly became one of the world's leading historians of spiritual matters. Her work displays a wide-ranging knowledge of religious traditions -- from monotheistic religions to Buddhism. That expertise is on full display in her latest book, "The Great Transformation," which charts the origins of many of the world's religions, including Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. What's remarkable is that all these spiritual traditions emerged in the same historical era -- the "Axial Age" -- from 900 to 200 B.C. More>>

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