In my house, we have a problem. My wife has been vaccinated. I haven’t.
Am I envious? Of course I am. Resentful? Yeah, some of that too. When she came home all cheerful ...
In 1787, on the eve of the French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Edward Carrington, dispatched to the Continental Congress, on the role of a free press.
If he had...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media...
Soon the month dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans will come to an end.
Will African Americans be better off this year because February wa...
As Congress advances a COVID-19 relief package that calls for a $15 national minimum wage by 2025, I am aware that some people think that being poor is a personal choice...
The United States Department of Agriculture has announced that there's “no credible evidence” that people can get COVID-19 from touching packages in the grocery store.
A...
There are many differences, in both style and substance, between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Yet the underlying message of Biden’s Build Back ...
The United States celebrates 11 permanent legal public holidays, if you include the quadrennial celebration of Inauguration Day.
None of these holidays was created to ce...
The internet has been an enormous blessing to many industries. The newspaper business is not one of them.
Granted, daily newspaper readership started declining well befo...
When I deliver lectures on pandemic ethics over Zoom as part of my job as a bioethicist, one of the questions I am asked with increasing frequency is whether I believe t...
