"3 Minutes Of Madness"

What nature does to small-brained creatures unable, or unwilling, to adapt.

Journalist, conservationist and untrained designer, he changed the face of America. 

Suddenly, Americans are getting organized. 

This Earth Day, the stakes are higher than ever.

Spring is spring, the grass is long. Anyone know where hope has gone? 

The 1950 census, now available online, is a compelling look at America's recent past -- and maybe its future. 

A new Covid variant is on the loose. Be very afraid. 

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has much in common with America's "culture wars.".

Despotism on the march, but democracy still has a good story to tell. 

In poetry and politics, some eerie portents for the start of a larger conflict. 

A brief lesson in history, democracy and the power of music.

Why book-banning has become our new national pastime. 

Can a divorced single mom with a rap sheet get the Church's highest honor? 

It's about Covid, but not what you think. 

The fight to keep Facebook, Google, Amazon et al. from ruining our lives. 

One year after the Capitol attack, American democracy is in deep trouble. Can it survive? 

My new grandson does not seem pleased with the world we're leaving him. 

Nothing says Christmas like an expensive, soon-discarded evergreen.

Time to clean up our political language. Or else. 

How to survive the holiday season sticker-shock supply-chain blues, according to Charles Dickens.