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For students in Amir Hussain’s
Intro to Islam course, nothing is more surprising than learning
of Islam’s esteem for Mary, the
mother of Jesus.

The human-dog lovefest may be 15,000 years old, and the pandemic has given it a shot in the arm. Are they our most faithful friends, or are we theirs?

In 1963, James Baldwin masterminded a tense nighttime meeting with Robert F. Kennedy to break down the Kennedy administration’s reluctance to act on civil rights. Baldwin’s summit changed RFK forever after.

Stephanie Bell’s senior film project turns the spotlight on Black women’s natural hairstyles and race-based hair discrimination.

Polls that seemed terribly inaccurate in the 2016 presidential election left half the country feeling they’d burned their hands on the stove. Should we doubt polling reports this year? Three LMU experts say probably not.

Pat and Jerry Brown — father and son — together governed California for a span totaling nearly a quarter century with their Catholic culture’s influence never far from the foreground.

In the COVID-19 era, what was has changed, what is now seems uncertain, but will be may be ours to decide. L.A. writer Lynell George ’84 writes about life during a pandemic.

Political rage has spread globally like a virus, and the divide between “us” and “them” is harder to bridge and growing wider everyday.