In coming out publicly in favor of the governor of Arkansas rejecting legislation that critics claimed could allow discrimination against g...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), Pope Francis set about implementing the spirit of the letter after the two last p...

As promised, I have stepped away from the obtuse academic writing to write a book geared to people "in the real world" who are in...

In his letter to every state governor in March 2015, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, urged the state officials to ...

At the conclusion of the European Council session in March 2015, all 19 of the state governors in attendance still wanted the state of Gree...

“What is your major?” is a mantra (and undoubtedly a pick-up line too) on college campuses. In giving students some exposure to a variety o...

With the winter of 2014-2015 failing to deliver much of a snowpack to California, Californians entered a fourth year of drought. The measur...

Should a company’s CEO use the vast tentacles of the local retail stores to prompt public discourse on race in America? Even though improvi...

Did the Americans who were in favor of passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 believe that access to healthcare is a human right? Did t...

How should a government spend a budget surplus? In California, the Californian government put some of its surplus in a “rainy-day fund” in ...

With Chinese courts revising more than 1,300 criminal decisions in 2014, the chief justice of the Supreme People’s Court, Zhou Qiang, told ...

On March 9, 2015, Wisconsin became a “right to work” State. That is to say, labor unions cannot force every worker of a unionized company t...

Politicians running for re-election may “remake themselves.” Companies “reinvent themselves.” If the company happens to make films, are the...

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As difficult as it is to grasp the nature of a black hole and its all-consuming gravity, Interstellar (2014) also traces the powerful yet m...