President Obama awards a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pat Summitt in 2012. Summit died June 28...
Month: July 2016
If we listen carefully to Trump’s supporters, we can hear their desire for progressive policies. By Arun...
Hungarian-born Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel attends a symposium of Jewish-Hungarian solidarity in...
By Pamela Merritt / 06.29.2016 I am a believer in tackling problems at the source. I would...
Espresso / Wikimedia Commons By Mark Prince One of the most common email requests received here at...
By Andrew Feinberg / 07.02.2016 Filing Status—Huge Agriculture—My golf courses receive tax breaks for agricultural use. If...
Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva (detail), ca. 851–900 CE. Ink and pigments on silk with gold leaf. British...
Artist’s concept of the Juno mission to Jupiter. By Dr. Leigh Fletcher / 06.30.2016 Royal Society Senior...
“If it weren’t for today’s biased and imbalanced U.S. media, there would be daily, front-page, primetime, network news...
© Cynthia Kittler Why are some people able to become happy, well-adjusted adults even after growing up...
Kidneys for donation are in short supply, via Shutterstock. By Dr. Samuel Kerstein / 06.24.2016 Professor of...
By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Columnist / 07.01.2016 He can’t do it, Republicans. It’s time for you...
By Cory Doctorow / 07.01.2016 A very good piece by Tom Simonite in the MIT Technology Review...
By Sara Burrows Counteracting the health impact of a Civilized Lifestyle Depression is a global epidemic. It...
“This is a huge victory for the state of Mississippi and the nation,” said ACLU of Mississippi...
By Dr. Timothy Rayner Former Professor of Philosophy University of Sydney Writer/Author PHILOSOPHY FOR CHANGE In 155BC,...
Benjamin Franklin observed many things about health, including the adverse effect of lead type. From www.shutterstock.com By...