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From the Desk of Dr. J

As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our nation to a dangerous edge of no return. Other ...

Tracy Beckerman

Superman is able to see through walls. Spider-Man can detect things with his Spidey-sense. Me? I can smell something in the next county. Yes, it's true. I am Super Smell Woman (not to be confused with the significantly less appealing Super Smelly Woman). I can detect unseen mold under a ...

Tim Graham

The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah looked like the opposite of the Washington Post motto. It's "Democracy Dies in Sunlight." Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a bullet to the neck. The dominant media reaction ...

Holding Space for Good

When Samantha Siegel's best friend took her to see an old live oak tree on Johns Island in South Carolina, she had no idea it was about to change her life. Samantha was a college student going through a hard time. Her friend just wanted to get her out of the house for a while. They went to see ...

Out and About: Ben Garbacz

The U.P. is quite the outdoorsman’s paradise, with some game animal or fish always in season every month of the year and a majestic landscape to explore while tracking the animal or waiting for the fish to bite. One of my favorite hobbies to eat up free time is fishing, and it has quite the ...

Rachel Marsden

PARIS — U.S. President Donald Trump got so fed up with the Pentagon calling itself the "Defense Department" that he decided it needed a makeover. Apparently "defense" sounded a little too yoga-retreaty for his taste. "We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War. ...