| Jan 28, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyWhen I decided to write a column about Leelah Alcorn, I initially tried to do it without using singular pronouns. The Cincinnati teen killed herself by jumping in front of a tractor trailer late last year. “I feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body,” she...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen the Senate released its shocking report on CIA torture late last year, it renewed a debate from the Bush years about the merits of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Polls released afterward suggested that most Americans thought that...
| | Environment / HealthGreeting cards treat Valentine’s Day like it’s a day for love. But for many people, it’s a day of self-loathing. “Why am I single, yet again, on another Valentine’s Day?” they may wonder. And it goes on: “Why can’t I get my...
| | Economy / BusinessIn his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama presented a bold economic vision for America. Do we want a country where only “a few of us do spectacularly well,” he asked, or where everyone has a chance to succeed? Obama conveyed this vision by...
| | Economy / BusinessMcDonald’s is scrambling, and I’m not talking about eggs. Your know your business has what image consultants call “quality perception issues” when your public relations team is fielding such questions as: “Does McDonald’s beef...
