Opinion

Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.

One can wait for the climate apocalypse to come, or one can see that it is happening already, especially in the pockets and places far from centers of power, where people live closest to the earth.

As recent events make painfully clear, there is a direct link between climate change and political unrest. The war in Syria has many fathers. But one of these is surely climate change.

We live in dangerous times. The assault of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on Baghdad, as well as other sectarian violence, challenge the very essence of the human person. No longer is this merely a clash of civilizations, but a struggle for the preservation of human life. Since religion or reli

In their widely cited book Securities Analysis, co-authors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd introduce what they call the “value investing” method. “Without some defined standards of value for judging whether securities are over- or under priced in the market place,” they write,

In an earlier column I took Baby Boomers to task for the way in which the ideals of their youth had morphed into shallow narcissistic consumerism in their golden years The column initiated a number of lively comments among boomers who took offense to my characterization of them Their reaction was