Tina Stevens lectures in history at San Francisco State University, is the author of Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), and is a co-founder of ...

Silicon Valley and other high tech billionaires are investing millions in start-ups dedicated to creating genetically ...

Trump 2.0 continually impresses everyone for its craziness. The latest venture into the absurd was Trump’s preemptive pardon ...

It’s back—the federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling. As the headline last month in the Long Island ...

I grew up in small-town America. Specifically, in a place where my family was a tiny minority. Agree with the stereotype or ...

A friend correctly harangued me about this New York Times piece on Donald Trump’s deal on prescription drugs with the United ...

The film “Nuremberg” depicts events surrounding the post-World War II International Military Tribunal – the first and ...

Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, ...

Doxing, swatting, bogus FBI calls, stalkers live-streaming outside their homes — it used to be marginal maniacs who saw journalists as targets to be neutralized. Now it’s the President. A government ...

We all know the story. Someone gets furious at the behavior of a health insurance company. Perhaps they are exceptionally ...

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the ...