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

Seemingly overnight, a virus once previously thought to be mild has received national attention and elicited warnings from international organizations. Spreading now across more than two dozen countries, the Zika virus was once considered to... Read More

Religious conservatives in government are at it again, trying to use taxpayer money to inject religious teachings into public school science classrooms. Mississippi State Rep. Mark Formby recently introduced HB 50, a bill that would... Read More

The United Nations has recognized February 20 as World Social Justice Day since 2007. The observance of this day, according to the UN’s description, “should support efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of... Read More