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A WSJ examination of the family of the Boston bombing suspects shows the family slipping into turmoil over the past five years. The upheaval was driven at least in part by a growing interest in religion by both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother.

This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Peter Dixon, Columbia University; Amy E Lerman, University of California, Berkeley; Fiorella Vera-Adrianzén, Santa Clara University, and Naomi Levy, Santa Clara University.

Americans don’t talk much about peace. But it turns out they care about it a lot – they just don’t talk about

Beijing (AP) — For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China’s far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated the sick with free herbal medicine. In the winter, he bought coal for the poor.

But as a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer’s native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly

Nine innocent people are dead. Several more are injured.

A disturbing update from Thursday’s tragedy at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon finds that the murderer, identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, now deceased, asked his victims to state their religious affiliations before shooting them. The wrong answer ended in a round of bullets.