On March 27, 1973, Marlon Brando refused to accept his Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Don Corleone in The Godfather. He had Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather attend instead. Declining the... Read More

Stories are an integral part of human development. They’ve been shared in cultures past and present as a means of entertainment, cultural preservation, and education. Although stories are largely used in academic subjects such as... Read More

The pop singer Kesha, then called Ke$ha, provided the soundtrack to my senior year of college. During a time in my life that was fraught with graduate school statements of purpose, applications for internships, and... Read More

Content note: The following article includes a description of a child’s death. Last Tuesday, I attended an understated congressional briefing centered on an issue that greatly impacts a considerable chunk of the population. Too often... Read More

Last week James Carroll wrote a sensitive piece in the New Yorker (“The Radical Meaning of Pope Francis's Visit to Juarez”) about the testy exchange between Pope Francis and Donald Trump regarding immigration. Midway through the... Read More

Darwin’s conceptualization of the tree of life (which developed into the phylogenetic trees biologists use today) often seems to present evolution as smooth lines and transitioning branches that trace the clear lineages of our planet’s... Read More

This past December resolutions were introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to designate February 12 Darwin Day, in recognition of the impact Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has had on... Read More