New Mexico has passed a law outlawing the act of shaming children for not having enough money for lunch.
One child in Alabama actually got a stamp on his arm saying, "I need lunch money."
The father...
Chances are you've recently purchased something from Amazon.com.
Maybe it was books. Maybe clothes. Maybe an appliance or a tool. Maybe you streamed a movie or an Amazon series. Maybe you even bought groceries.
Sometime in the...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
Last Friday in a move that proves for some judges law doesn't matter, only what your pastor has told you, the Nebraska Supreme Court denied a request from a 16 year old ward of the...
They're called "long-haulers".
They're victims of Covid-19 in a separate category from the 80% who experience mild symptoms and those complaining of severe symptoms for three to six weeks.
They're a combination of the two, battling lasting...
Last week, New York became the first state to institute a tuition-free college plan since state schools nationwide ended the practice in the 1960s.
Now, a mere two signatures are all that's required to cause New Yorkers to stand up...
From Harvey Weinstein to Charlie Rose, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), recent workplace sexual misconduct allegations have dominated daily headlines.
Amid all the high-profile accusations, though, it's easy to forget one environment...
In 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale. They should have harvested, stored, and preserved the crops they had in light of this devastation. Instead, residents of Haiti set fire...
In just the past year and a half, the Trump administration’s war on immigrants has perpetrated the following crimes against humanity:
Created a phony university to entice undocumented immigrants;
Suggested fortifying Trump’s racist border wall with a snake- or alligator-infested...
President Donald Trump proves to Americans that he is a master at the "art of the fail" by pulling the bill that would repeal Obamacare, and replacing it with Trump’s version of “healthcare.” Speaker of...
Remember in 2016 when Trump famously claimed, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters"?
Shooting someone wouldn't cost him support.
But the COVID vaccine certainly is.
Many of...
As nearly a dozen states are either contemplating or have decided to lift mask mandates, it's time to consider something that has gotten little consideration in the press these past two years.
As the second anniversary...
There’s been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a pangolin?
Was it...
What is the greatest threat to global public health?
Many will argue it's COVID-19.
That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545 total confirmed cases in the United States alone, and 666,806 Americans...
Quick quiz: what's the best way to prevent child sexual abuse?
It's devastating to think about, something no parent or loved one would ever want to consider. And yet thinking about how to prevent it is one...
Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade died on Saturday at an assisted-living facility in Texas. The cause of death was reportedly heart-related illness.
Norma was just 22 years old when she...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden outlined...
Over 1 in 5 people suffer from mental illnesses. Here are some famous people who suffered from various mental illnesses:
1. Ludwig Van Beethoven
He suffered from bipolar disorder. His manic episodes fueled his creativity. He was...
We've likely all heard the cliche, "Every cloud has a silver lining."
Triteness aside, like most hackneyed phrases, it bears some truth.
Sometimes it takes a little effort to put a positive spin on unfortunate events, but...
