Fifty years ago tonight, followers of Charles Manson murdered actress Sharon Tate, her unborn child, Jay Sebring (hairstylist to Frank…
As activists around the world recently celebrated Earth Day with warnings about the awful state of our planet, now seems…
One of the tragedies caused by the decline of education over the last century has been the demise of rhetoric,…
Polls show that people increasingly distrust science. Why might that be? Most surely don’t reject the scientific method — using the…
Last week Scott Gottlieb announced his resignation as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Unfortunately and unexpectedly, Gottlieb’s reign…
Remember when the notion of Obamacare passing was laughable, unthinkable? And here we are, years later, in a system with…
February 26 marks the centenary of Grand Canyon National Park, its designation issuing from the pen of President Woodrow Wilson…
In August, 1910, a huge fire burned three million acres (destroying whole towns and taking 87 lives) in Washington state,…
