Churches and other nonprofits by law must be nonpartisan – at least for now. The House’s version of the tax package pending in Congress includes a provision that would leave religious and secular charities alike suddenly free to engage in political speech. Susan Anderson, who teaches nonprofit taxation at Elon University, argues “this significant change deserves vigorous public debate and is too big to bury in tax legislation.”

Yesterday’s brutal attack on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai left at least 235 people dead and more than 100 wounded. It is the deadliest assault on civilians in modern Egyptian history and the country’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, vowed to respond with “brute force.” But why did extremists target this particular mosque? Wesleyan University’s Peter Gottschalk explains why Sufis and their traditions are so threatening to Islamic extremists.

When American cultural anthropologist Alma Gottlieb lived in Côte d'Ivoire doing ethnographic fieldwork she had a realization: childrearing practices vary around the world, but the kids typically grow into healthy, happy adults regardless. Here she uses the example of diverse toilet-training practices to show there’s more than one path to raising a well-adjusted child.