The brain’s powers are a little overrated. To keep your body going, you don’t need a functioning brain, but you do need something to provide…

REUTERS/XihaoPeople look at a hand-made replica of a Lamborghini Reventon as they drive past it in Suqian, Jiangsu province August 30, 2012. Wang Jian, who…

Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I’m not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so…

America’s youth is a reflection of the diverse society and its contemporary political trends. It is true that a segment of the youth is anti-government…

This past weekend the Los Angeles Times published a piece about recent or planned expansions and luxury level upgrades at a number of elite private…

Despite the fact that 98% of climatologists accept manmade climate change as a fact, almost a quarter of Americans [3] still believe that climate science is…

It has occurred almost without notice. While the U.S. continues to claim its foremost world status as a democracy, since 9/11 it has shifted its…

From any perspective other than the robust prosperity of the 1%, San Francisco is a city in crisis. In the past five years, reported evictions…

State-of-the-art forensic technology from South Africa has been used to try and unravel the mystery of what was smoked in tobacco pipes found in the…

Back in the fat years – two or three decades ago, when the “mainstream” media were booming – I was able to earn a living…

Hobson's explanation of colonialism The Industrial Revolution opened up an enormous gap in military strength between the industrialized nations and the rest of the world.…

Of the 10,000 men and woman fighting the California wildfires right now, roughly 40% of them are convicted criminals, Capital Public Radio reports. They are…