Persuading my young children to eat healthy meals as they grew up in the 90s was made easier by a colorful poster of the official Food Pyramid hung on the side of our fridge. There it faced the dining table so my kids could look at their plates, look at the Pyramid, and realize they didn’t ...
“You’re all afraid to face what you really are.” — The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neil During its October 2024 session, Senate Democrats and Republicans fashioned a smart, sensible, and compassionate bipartisan immigration bill that had enough support in both the Senate and House to ...
On Jan. 6, ABC4 reported new additions to Utah’s list of banned books, which resulted in a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union against the state of Utah. Said the ACLU in a press release, according to the article: “These laws undermine students’ fundamental freedoms by ...
Let's take a minute to do a little thought exercise. For the next couple of minutes, try to step back from the emotions and fears and political views and focus on the people. Imagine being an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly referred to as ICE) today. I'll ...
About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...
Many people worry that acknowledging differences between girls and boys — or between women and men — will reinforce stereotypes. Yet research increasingly shows that ignoring those differences can have the very same effect. Scholars like Dr. Leonard Sax argue that overlooking sex‑based ...
