August 27, 2017 Archive August 2017

We are under surplus Trump stress: What can we do to protect ourselves?

Why tourists go to sites associated with death and suffering

How kids can resist advertising and be smart consumers

More states are allowing guns on college campuses

Gerald Feierstein, a Gulf-funded expert pushing catastrophic war on Yemen, appears to have lied to Congress

Progressives: Don't blow the chance for health care reform with a single-payer litmus test

The tragic tale of Egypt's decline: Is it also the story of America's future?

Arpaio pardon could encourage more civil rights violations

Torture and silence: A shattering exhibit of photos by Andres Serrano confronts what we don't talk about

Why defending workers’ rights means fighting ICE’s deportation machine

Parents, know your special education rights

Raising an Un-Trump: Don't just shield your kids from Donald Trump — use him as a teaching tool

As climate change warms the Northeast, some snowshoe hares stay brown all year

Civil War historian Peter Carmichael: Keep the statues, focus on racial injustice

"The Last Dalai Lama?": The spiritual leader gets deep into neuroscience in new doc

Rex Tillerson on President Trump's values: "The president speaks for himself"

President Trump tweets while the flooding in Houston reaches catastrophic levels

It is time to examine the words and the origins of our national anthem, another neo-Confederate symbol

Trump's reversal on Afghanistan heightens the contradictions — his and ours

L.A. residents voice Olympic anxiety at public forum

Donald Trump is starting a Republican civil war — and it's a war he can't win

Over the years, Americans have become increasingly exposed to extremism

The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do?

National Weather Service: Hurricane Harvey is "beyond anything experienced"

All the deaths in "Game of Thrones" season 7, ranked

9 ways to get teens reading

Arya versus Sansa, the other battlefront on "Game of Thrones"

The success of "Dunkirk" is proof that the World War II myth machine is still alive and well

Oklahoma police chief to resign after his name connected to white supremacist website

Increasingly large majority of America is on the same negative page about Trump, except for his hardcore Republican base

My dinner with Alger Hiss

The best books of 2017 (so far)

Conservative news organization denounces Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio

The Florida woman trying to break free of being "Florida Woman"

Explaining polygamy and its history in the Mormon Church

Diamonds in the sky: Uranus isn't the only planet in the universe raining treasures