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Your feelings toward plastic are likely rooted in the pop-culture touchstones of your generation. Could it be DC Comics’ “Plastic Man” who debuted in 1941? Is it your mom’s Tupperware parties or your first Lego set in the 1950s? In 1967 it was likely the opening scene of “The Graduate” when plastics is the career advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character. Further on, it coul...

American political life is filled with speeches about virtue. Candidates invoke family, faith, responsibility and the moral health of the nation. Then campaign season arrives, and the same system quietly asks a different question: Who can pay? That is the contradiction Americans can no longer afford to ignore. The Brennan Center 

In the beginning of the grooming process, there is sweetness and light. The groomer wants you, acts like you’re the only one in the room, showers you with adulation, folds you into the embrace of a gushingly warm 24/7 community and immerses you in the seductive quicksand of their budding nation/family/tribe, anchored by the benevolence of a shiny new “god” who becomes mother,...

The other day, one of our dedicated members, Craig Barlow, reached out to share a deeply moving reflection with me. He had been reading an article titled “How to Lead a More Intentional Life in 2026,” which prompted him to look back on the final days of ...

It was a planet whose inhabitants’ desperate distress signals, from within our galaxy, did not seem to be worth the bother of responding to, given that the beings who were sending them were, quite clearly, already too far gone to be saved by the time we could get there, and their planet, which they had turned into an orbiting, rotating abattoir, inundated with organic and ino...