Teenage pregnancies are down across the United States but the reason isn’t because girls have learned to say “no.” The reason is they have easy access to  contraception.  (Click)  Girls, rather than boys, have been held responsible for unwanted pregnancies and the responsibil

An art furor hangs over Dana Schatz’s painting, Open Casket,  on display at the Whitney Museum Biennial in New York.  The work depicts 14 year-old Emmett Till in his open casket after his brutal, 1955 murder in Mississippi, the consequences of  a white woman’s false accusation

The letter began, “Don’t you dare defend the Constitution because it was written by Christians for Christians.” (“Crank Mail,” FFRF Free Thought Today, Jan/Feb, 2017, pg. 27.)  The comment is kinder than most which the Freedom from Religion Foundation receives on a daily ba

Here we go again, another keeper of the canon is taking arms against a sea of MFA graduates and program writing, as she calls it, work which whittles narrative to the thinness of a toothpick, which mistakes craft for art and believes true writing is a self-indulgent rumination on self

Bees were  put on the endangered species list, recently, along with certain butterflies.  Some say a virus is killing them off.  Others argue the fault lies with pesticides or a decline in habitat.  The way builders are carving up agricultural land to erect houses makes me think a

Rural America must be wondering if either the Republicans or Democrats represent them.  The loss of jobs in their areas has caused disruptions of epic proportions.  (Blog 4/4/2013)  Despite President Donald Trump’s assurances he will restore opportunities for blue-collar workers,

Because we live in a chaotic universe, Robert Lowenstein believes we invent narratives to make sense of our surroundings.   (“The Stories We Fall For,” by Roger Lowenstein, Fortune, March 15, 2017, pg. 30).  I’m inclined to believe him. The world really is of our making. Here

Like Paul Revere,  I and others have spent time shouting, “The robots are coming.  The robots are coming.” I’m unsure what to do about it, but as writer  Jennifer Alserver notes, these machines are becoming smarter, more people sensitive and more versatile.   (“Is This Ro

The article reads like a John le Carré spy thriller. (“Chasing the Phantom,” by Garrett Graff, Wired, April 2017, pgs. 52-63)  Writer Garrett Graff recounts the hunt for the world’s most successful and notorious hacker, who, with his code, walks through bank vaults as if they

The current political climate in the United States can only be described as jaw-dropping.  At the moment, all eyes are focused upon our newly elected president who seems to have come from nowhere to gain both the nomination of the Republican Party and the White House. By no means sho