Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut),…

NATO has announced that it is launching an “information war” against Russia. The UK publicly announced a battalion of keyboard warriors to spread disinformation. It’s well-documented that the West…

Did you play a musical instrument when you were growing up? Do you continue to play an instrument today? Neuroscientists continue to find evidence that musical…

The move to a cashless society won’t happen overnight.  Instead, it is being implemented very slowly and systematically in a series of incremental steps.  All…

Last week President Obama announced a series of executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.” The initiative is partially an exercise…

I know a high school senior who’s so worried about whether she’ll be accepted at the college of her choice she can’t sleep. The parent…

The bold headline of a recent Los Angeles Times editorialby the hydrologist Jay Famiglietti starkly warned: “California has about one year of water left. Will you…

Now surely that’s a big number, and it’s really concerning just considering this fact — but I want to put this figure into perspective for…

 More than four out of five of America’s largest cities add fluoride to municipal water sources, a trend that has been growing since Grand Rapids, Michigan…

I recently introduced an amendment at the Senate Budget Committee. It was pretty simple. It asked my Senate colleagues to begin the process of overturning…

There is an eerie feel to this grove of lodgepole pines that I can't quite put my finger on as entomologist Diana Six tromps ahead of me,…

Why are so few talking about coal's impact on already scarce water resources? Despite the global water crisis being identified as the top risk to…