Growing up in Texas, I was intimately familiar with “country life” and all that comes with it: good food, colorful characters, pervasive religiosity, fishing, hunting, and a suspicious attitude towards the government and “outsiders.” This... Read More

Corporate-backed “right-to-work” laws, such as the measure just passed in Wisconsin with the strong support of Republican presidential prospect Gov. Scott Walker, are a prime example of a double standard in modern American society, where... Read More

What do religion and astrobiology have to do with each other? At first glance, not much. But they both concern the meaning of life, with many religions purporting to have answers to the “right” questions... Read More

There are genuine heroes in the world, and you can often tell who they are by how much they are vilified. As a matter of course, social justice heroes who actually succeed in their cause... Read More

“Global warming.” “Climate change.” Whatever you call the dramatic shifts in temperature currently affecting our planet, the vast majority of the world’s scientists agree that the shifts are real and pose an urgent threat to... Read More

By now, we’ve all heard of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity, infamous for a leaked video in which fraternity brothers can be heard chanting, “There will never be... Read More

(Research for this article was provided by Karen Ide) As March is Women's History Month in the United States, it’s a fitting time to examine some history that many mistakenly believe has already been "made."... Read More