The Comics Section: It’s Mid-March and Your Editor Has a Neck Tan Line
The latest from Cagle Cartoons. Extraordinary March heat wave in the West by Paul Duginski, CagleCartoons.com
Between the Proposal and the Protest
This semester, as I teach an online writing course at a Southern California community college, I keep asking: How do you truly engage students... Read More
The Underworld of Grief What “Hamnet” Reveals about Love, Loss and the Stories that Bring Us Back
Stories about the underworld are rarely really about the dead. They are about the living—about how human beings survive grief. From the ancient myth... Read More
Honestly Boring
I remember the first time I ever heard the word homosexual. I was in the first grade, and my mother and I were sitting... Read More
Borrowed Futures: The Federal Debt and Climate Change The Federal Debt and Climate Change Walk Into a Bar. Our Grandkids Pick Up the Tab!
Both the federal debt and climate change share a peculiar trait. They are almost invisible, right up until they are not. One day the... Read More
What the Gig Economy Taught Me About Being Human
I've spent nine years inside the gig economy. I write from home in rural West Virginia, a place where factory jobs disappeared long ago... Read More
The Comics Section: Increased Allergens
The latest from Cagle Cartoons. Allergy season getting worse by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
Future of God: It’s Personal
Now and then, people contemplate imponderable questions such as: What is consciousness? What existed before the Big Bang? Or, what came first – the... Read More
When Christian Nationalism Becomes Public Policy
One year into President Trump’s second term, a new nationwide survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) offers an eye-opening snapshot into the... Read More
War, Violence, and the Internalized Male Toxicity Among Trump and His Supporters
War in the Middle East is upon us again, it seems. Blame the many men in power in all of the countries involved. The... Read More