Mansplaining

Send us Fan Mail It’s a choice a lot of us face every day: whether to give cash to a panhandler on the street or instead donate that money to a charity that serves the homeless and tries to get them...

3 Apr 202236min

Send us Fan Mail Let’s face it: some people are never, ever going to take a COVID vaccine. A member of Joe’s family is one such person, and he really wanted to know where that point of view came fro...

20 Mar 202234min

Send us Fan Mail If there were a list of intractable problems our country faces, homelessness would certainly be on it. The solution proffered by many advocates – more affordable housing – seems simp...

6 Mar 202243min

Send us Fan Mail There’s been a lot of chatter in the media lately – no doubt influenced by the publication of two recent books on the subject - about whether the United States is on the brink of a se...

20 Feb 202248min

Send us Fan Mail For the last few decades, Americans have taken it as gospel that crime has been falling, a belief that’s supported by reams of data. But what if the data is being manipulated by poli...

7 Feb 202247min

Send us Fan Mail U.S. diplomatic personnel stationed in Havana, Cuba first reported it more than five years ago: a piercing, high-pitched sound, often followed by headache, nausea, and vertigo. Since...

23 Jan 202231min

Send us Fan Mail You know those good deeds you do for others and others do for you? What if somebody told you that every one of those acts is actually selfishness in disguise? Well, that’s what some...

9 Jan 202240min

Send us Fan Mail It’s hard not to be demoralized by the news these days, what with a worldwide pandemic still raging, climate devastation upon us, and a completely dysfunctional political system see...

21 Des 202140min