From TIME: Dorothy Roberts is an academic, 2024 MacArthur “genius” grantee, and author who is advocating for what, at first blush, seems like a really crazy idea: the abolition of child-protective services. CPS is a catchall term for the system of government agencies that step in when they deem children to be in...
On a lighter note (from the last posting) a new study rules out the proposition that an infinite number of monkeys given an infinite amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked of course with an infinite supply of paper – we are talking TYPEWRITERS not keyboards) would eventually produce, by...
It is easy for Alex Behr to gush about her son, Eli, whom she describes as a generous and thoughtful college junior who had a serious skateboarding phase.
It is much harder for her to talk about his politics. Ms. Behr, 59, is a Democrat in Portland, Ore., who voted...
From 19th News: After three rounds of fertility treatments, Haley Swenson and her wife, Alieza Durana, had a baby boy in March 2023.
Because Swenson carried their baby and was the biological mother, only she was seen as the parent in the eyes of the law. Durana would have to...