On the Miss America email scandal
Vulgar emails about women's body parts have scandalized the Miss America pageant (I mean, scholarship competition).
Social Studies
Want trumps need as Congress passes tax reform
The new tax law passed, and most Americans can be expected to get a few more dollars every paycheck. What will it cost us?
Unlike monkeys, we turn competition into cooperation
Games, like life, don't have to be a zero-sum game, as scientists at Ga. State found by looking at primate behavior in monkeys.
Alabama elects a Democratic senator
The next US senator from Alabama, one of the nation's reddest states, is Doug Jones, a Democrat, who won in an upset, to Trump's dismay.
31 Republicans challenge tax on grad tuition waivers
The provision in the tax reform act that makes graduate tuition waivers taxable might go away, thanks to 31 Republican reps.
Smartphone addiction linked to chemical imbalance
Being "addicted" to a smartphone or the internet can be linked to a chemical imbalance in the brain, new research suggests.
#GradTaxWalkout planned for noon today
A tax on graduate school tuition waivers as regular income is unfair & catastrophic. Students in the US take to the streets.
Amid hate incident uptick, U.Md. hires coordinator
Hate bias incidents are reportedly on the rise at Maryland's flagship university. Why? What can or should be done?
Calif. districts sue feds over DACA changes
A handful of Calif. school districts are suing the federal government over President Trump's decision to end the DACA program.
A few Thanksgiving observations
Noting the presidential history of the holiday, we observe that much needs to happen to ensure a healthy economy and a healthy planet.