As a child, my father made me read National Geographic stories and summarize each paragraph with a single written sentence. I would have preferred to watch what my father called the “boob tube,” and it would have been easier for him to let me. Instead, he insisted that I keep reading and ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has begun the process of freezing her eggs for future childbearing. Not only does AOC talk about it, she shares Instagram videos of her getting hormone shots in her belly. AOC is 36, approaching her later baby-making years. Frozen eggs can later be fertilized ...

Men in the U.S. are stuck -- stuck in dissatisfaction, stuck in judgement and stuck in a culture that increasingly tells them that they aren't strong enough, attractive enough or mean enough to matter. In a perhaps related development, American sailors appear to be trying to escape the ...

Those of you of a certain vintage — who, like me, are close to being fitted for coffins — must be applauding the re-appearance on TV (the INSP channel) of Have Gun - Will Travel (for some reason with a hyphen, not a dash or a comma; let’s call it HGWT). That extraordinarily popular show ...

It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent Democratic primaries in the key swing Midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with a side look at Minnesota. These results highlight a basic ...

Whether heading to kindergarten for the first time or getting ready for that senior year of high school, most students in Northern Utah will be back in the classroom in the next week, which is why I think this is a great time to talk about our public school system. Having access to ...