Santas and swords at the Smart.

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture nurtures cross-disciplinary research and programming.

Mummies Night at the Oriental Institute.

Exploring the human microbiome.

A long, strange trip.

Talking reproduction with Robert Martin.

Learning and shopping at the Oriental Institute.

Visiting novelist Gamal Al Ghitany discusses the state of creativity in Egypt.

Many questions, few answers about the Common Core.

Elie Wiesel searches for a moral dimension in the political process.

Learning, or not, at the DuSable Museum’s Civil War reenactment.