It’s pretty clear by now that expressions of empathy and supplications for divine intervention are no more effective in ending the continual carnage of mass shootings in America than is wishing on a ...

I applaud Noozhawk for its support of freedom of speech and for not engaging in today’s media cancel-culture. However, columnist Randy Alcorn’s outrageous, unsubstantiated claims against 74 million ...

For nearly my entire adult life I have been politically independent and ideologically agnostic. Anyone who has read my columns over the past 20 years should know that I have equal disdain for both ...

America has resisted many progressive reforms that most western societies have successfully embraced decades ago. Whether that makes America exceptional or the least advanced of the world’s advanced ...

Not being a man of faith affiliated with any church or religion may rule out the notion of my eternity, but it does afford a perspective on the here and now that is unclouded by ecclesiastical ...

California prides itself as being among the world’s leaders in pursuing policies and enacting laws intended to arrest or mitigate environmentally damaging human activity. Over recent decades there has ...

At a park last week, I happened to overhear a group of senior women sharing stories about their childhoods. They had grown up in the 1930s and ‘40s and were reflecting on the economic conditions they ...

When you read or hear the “N-word,” what word immediately comes to mind? It isn’t “numbskull” is it? Most everyone knows what the euphemism substitutes for. You can’t help but think the actual word, ...

Russia’s Hitleresque invasion of Ukraine has galvanized much of the world, especially the Western world, which has been shocked out of its post-Cold War complacency. Wars of conquest, at least in ...

Magical thinking is the willingness to accept as true things for which there is no valid evidence, and continuing to do so even in the face of conflicting or contradictory realities. Mankind has ...

It’s pretty clear by now that expressions of empathy and supplications for divine intervention are no more effective in ending the continual carnage of mass shootings in America than is wishing on a ...

There are those who argue that the underlying cause of the angst and anger that fuels America’s incendiary political tribalism is the tenuous finances and fading prospects of a large number of ...