Many Americans today are troubled by the anger, disrespect, and ignorant attitudes they see in the younger generations. Unfortunately, these attitudes often spill over in violent protests and other inappropriate actions. Such was the case last fall in Loudon County, Virginia when a group of five teenagers defaced the historic, one-room “Ashburn Colored School” with
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Hans Rosling, the Swedish doctor and professor who saved countless lives in the world’s poorest countries (and gave many TED talks), died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. Last December, Nature had an interesting feature with him, discussing his life’s work. Rosling was an antidote to uninformed pessimism. As Nature noted: Rosling’s charm appeals to those frustrated by the persistence of myths about the
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Society pays a heavy price for traffic. It leads to lost time, more pollution and increased spending on gasoline. In metropolitan areas, road congestion in 2012 led consumers to waste 2.9 billion gallons of fuel and spend 5.5 billion hours sitting in traffic. According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the average commuter wastes 42
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I have no opinion on Milo Yiannopoulos, the editor at Breitbart News whose acceptance of an invitation to speak at the University of California Berkeley recently sparked a massive protest that turned into a riot. All I know is that he’s gay, Jewish, and lands somewhere on the right. I’ve never read anything he has written. I have never seen him
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Donald Trump is going after one of the few issues proven to be a unifier across party lines: civil asset forfeiture. This legal tool allows law enforcement to seize money and physical property from those merely suspected of criminal behavior. Unfortunately, there is no conviction requirement, meaning confiscation can occur before suspects have been given
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Until relatively recently, the notion that torture was wrong was a proposition to which everyone assented; governments that practiced torture lied about what they were doing. Under the Bush Administration, in the wake of 9/11, the reluctance of officials to admit that what they had authorized was torture, or their insistence that it was at
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