As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our nation to a dangerous edge of no return. Other ...

Superman is able to see through walls. Spider-Man can detect things with his Spidey-sense. Me? I can smell something in the next county. Yes, it’s true. I am Super Smell Woman (not to be confused with the significantly less appealing Super Smelly Woman). I can detect unseen mold under a ...

In his life’s work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation’s partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in horrific ...

Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the Department of Justice last week. Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among the department’s top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was ...

When Samantha Siegel’s best friend took her to see an old live oak tree on Johns Island in South Carolina, she had no idea it was about to change her life. They went to see a tree estimated to be 300-400 years old and known as the “Angel Tree.” It’s 65 feet tall, and it shades ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ? James ...