The birth rate in this country is plummeting for a very obvious reason: Women don’t want babies. But the reason women don’t want babies is something conservative Republicans hate to admit: Having children is expensive and burdensome,... Read More

This week, we’re excited to hear from Marjolein Dubbers, an expert in nutrition and women’s health. The author of Hormone Power: Transform Your Diet, Transform Your Life, Marjolein believes standard diets are nonsensical because each... Read More

Fairy tales are powerful mojo—entertaining, yes, but also capable of shaping young minds in enchantingly propaganda-like ways. As stories, the best of the tales succeed when they utilize fantastical ideas like talking creatures,... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Indigenous Authors of This Place: 150 Years Retold / Canada, our cheerful, polite neighbor to the north, hasn’t always lived up to its ideals. Just as the US grotesquely mistreated its Indigenous... Read More

Global warming threatens the planet in many ways, with some dangers more clear and present, while others are impossible to imagine. We don’t know what we don’t know, the climate experts say. But we do know certain low-lying places... Read More

Add this to the reasons experts warn us not to spend too much time with smart phones: By heavily relying on Google Maps and other navigational apps, you will definitely weaken the area of your brain that controls your sense of direction.... Read More

Restaurants rock! Find another business that combines such a panoply of pleasures: exquisite food, hip bar scenes, edgy architecture, engaging employees who serve you, and that indefinable special sauce that elevates a dining experience... Read More

In the late 1800s, the wonders of electricity transformed the American landscape—streetlights, streetcars, engines in factories—in perhaps human history’s greatest game-changing technology. And in the following handful of decades,... Read More