News Companion

There's a famous quote of Mark Twain's about the illusions of adolescence: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignoran...

A pretty good crowd showed up at Princeton University for James Baker's talk entitled "A Conservative Approach to Climate Change...

In this post-2016 election world, many of us are seeking ways to break out of our bubbles and help others to do the same. I have a suggestio...

If you're wondering how the country became controlled by a science-denying president and political party, it's worth taking a look a...

This is a highly deceptive time, when cowardice, irresponsibility, and political opportunism are portrayed as tough-mindedness. Even those n...

For many of us, the 2016 election demonstrated that we now live in an upside down political world, where facts don't matter, bad b...

There's an irony in that quote, "Stay humble", which popped up on the screen halfway through a Forbes oped entitled "T...

Oftentimes, the headlines that catch our eye are the ones that upset the applecart of long-held views. There's something appealing about...

For many of us, something was shattered when we woke up on 11/9, and it wasn't a glass ceiling. When seeking to put a broken world back ...

A builder of tall buildings has proven ascendant, and yet so much appears in free fall. First impressions the morning after: When the Unth...

Simply put, in the final presidential debate, it was the class valedictorian against the rich kid who never had to study up. Hillary looked ...

A ground rule for the Commander in Chief Forum, hosted by NBC on Sept. 8, 2016, was that the candidates should not use the forum as an oppor...

I have a dream. Two dreams actually. The first is that Donald Trump not become president, in part because being president requires having an...

One way to understand Donald Trump, in his new role as Republican nominee for president, is as a suicide candidate who has gained entry into...

In Tao Orion's book, you can witness the sorry sight of one faction of plant lovers attacking another. Permaculturists launch a verbal b...

Does misinformation behave like invasive species, spreading into people's minds, eluding normal checks and balances and resisting attemp...