Giving Our Kids a Fighting Chance

Giving Our Kids a Fighting Chance

As dire warnings from climate scientists continue to escalate and extreme weather events become increasingly common, the Obama administration’s new proposal to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants couldn’t be more important or timely. The...
Therapy Benefits Us All

Therapy Benefits Us All

In 2008, I went to therapy. By then, I’d needed it for a long time. I had a terribly difficult, incurable condition — one I’d had for 28 years without treatment. My condition? Being human. Like many “normal” people, I felt I didn’t need...
Forging a Secret Legacy

Forging a Secret Legacy

Edward Snowden is trying to set the record straight about what exactly he was doing before he blew the whistle on widespread government snooping. Back when he made headlines by sharing his revelations and opting to stay stuck in Russia rather than serving time in a...
Fast Food Giants Picking Their Workers’ Pockets

Fast Food Giants Picking Their Workers’ Pockets

No matter how small the haul, a thief is a thief, right? If a poverty-wage fast-food worker sneaks out a couple of burgers to take home to the kids, the bosses yell: “Thief!” But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about...