Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Merriam-Webster defines sacred cow as someone or something that has been accepted or respected for a long time and that people are afraid or unwilling to criticize or question. In 1Thessalonians, we ...

Discover the concept of sacred cows—deeply held beliefs or practices immune to criticism. Learn how they function and explore examples in finance and beyond.

In Varun Chopra’s Oscar-contending documentary short Holy Cowboys, the director offers a peek into a side of India’s societal structure on how the cow, a sacred and holy animal to the majority Hindu ...

Daniel Naudé, “Ankole 13, Kiruhura district, Western Region, Uganda” (2012) (all images courtesy the artist and Prestel unless otherwise noted) Maybe you’ve paused to admire the curved crown of a ...

It was a little over a year ago that I published my first article here at Washington Monthly. I had been a regular reader, but had never looked under the hood to see what this publication was all ...

Dr. Henry Garland Bennett, president of Oklahoma A & M and new chief of the Government’s Point Four (“Technical Assistance”) Program, gave an example last week of how Point Four could help the world’s ...

Kamdhenu sacred cow, Shesh Narayana, Nepal. A "sacred cow" is an idea unreasonably immune from questioning or criticism." Has the recent intense controversy regarding the newly released ...

The search for a missing statue of a cow in the Central Java province of Indonesia came to an end when a local man came upon it in his neighbor's yard while gardening—most of it, anyway. The ...

This item never appeared in print. I can only relate it as a friend told me. With the legalization of marijuana, apparently some farmers are turning their fields to it as a cash crop. One such farmer ...

MEWAT, India — Shaukat Qureshi will never forget the day when police raided his roadside food stall here in northern India. “They picked out meat pieces from my biryani,” Qureshi, 17, said of a ...