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A Note Before Election Day
“For the first time, it feels like my rights are on the line.” My friend said this to me in an impromptu FaceTime call, in which we were supposed to be catching up about our respective lives. The...
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How Biden Can Do More Than Just Restore Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
By Jonathan Thompson In early 2017, not long after President Donald J. Trump moved into the White House, his chief advisor, Steve Bannon, said that the administration’s aim was the “deconstruction of...
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How the Trump Administration Is on a Killing Spree
The case of Brandon Bernard was a rare execution of someone who was in his teens when his crime was committed. Bernard, 40, was one of five gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd...
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Successful Businesses Need Proactive Leadership – and So Does Congress
By Thomas Bateman, University of Virginia and Mike Crant, University of Notre Dame Imagine you’re speeding along on a highway. Suddenly, the traffic ahead of you slows, forcing you to hit the breaks....
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Murderer or Mentally Ill Victim
In December 2004 Lisa Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett (8 months into her pregnancy), and cut her unborn child from her stomach with a kitchen knife. Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be...
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The Latest in Trump Administration Killing Spree
I have written about the executions that the Trump administration has put forward in the last few weeks a couple of times. There are a total of 4 inmates set to be executed in a span of a week. We...
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The Crack in America’s Pillars
In May, I saw police officers shoot rubber bullets at a group of black teenagers as they stood in place, holding Black Lives Matter signs. I saw a gun held in a black man’s face as he carried a...
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13 New Environmental Books To Motivate Action
By John R. Platt One of the best ways to feel better about the world is to do something to help the world. That’s a lesson I learned a long time ago, and it’s one echoed in an impressive slate of new...
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Why the “I Just Don’t Talk About Politics With Them” Mentality Is Hurting...
I write about health, fitness, and mindset… Is it my job to talk about politics? -Absolutely not. Is it my civic duty? -Maybe. Does the state of things today deeply trouble me? -Yes. Are interpersonal...
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As We Heal and Move Forward, Watch Out for Aftershocks
By John R. Platt The Trump era finally drew to an exhausting close this week. So why does it still feel like the other shoe has yet to drop? I’m not alone in this. Everyone I talked to this week,...
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Biden Moves to Dial Down America’s Soaring Methane Emissions
By Tim Lydon On his first day in office, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order that stops the Keystone XL pipeline and pauses oil lease sales in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....
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Biden Moves To Overturn Trump Birth Control Rules
By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News The Biden administration Wednesday formally proposed the repeal of Trump-era regulations barring abortion referrals and making other changes intended to evict...
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Listening To the Devil
I recently watched a video by “The Friendly Atheist” about several so-called prophets who were guaranteeing a second term for President Donald Trump. After the election happened and Joe Biden was...
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Former President Donald Trump Can’t Stand Being Out of the Limelight
According to CNET, Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s filed lawsuits accusing Google, Facebook, Twitter, and their CEOs of First Amendment violations for alleged censorship. The three...
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Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still...
By Julie Appleby A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars — or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use. Long hidden, such price variations are...
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Why Cheap, Older Drugs That Might Treat COVID Never Get Out of the Lab
By Arthur Allen In March 2020, Dr. Joseph Vinetz left the contemplative world of his Yale University infectious-disease laboratory and plunged into the covid ward at Yale New Haven Hospital, joining...
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Shelter Sickness
By Renuka Rayasam CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Two days after arriving at a temporary migrant shelter at the border with the U.S. in June, Rosa Viridiana Ceron Alpizar’s 9-year-old daughter and 1-year-old...
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Many Refugees Dealing With Trauma Face Obstacles to Mental Health Care
By Erica Zurek and Alander Rocha As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two...
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Close the Audit Gap
By Sam Pizzigati In 2020, U.S. households annually making over $1 million faced fewer tax audits than households with incomes low enough to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. That had never...
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Denying Education to Immigrant Children Is Morally Wrong — And Practically Dumb
By Conor P. Williams & Alejandra Vázquez Baur, The 74 This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this...
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