Have you ever gone to bed with thoughts whirring through your head, and realized that you can't shut them out anyway? Activist voices are just like that. You could kill all your dissenters and reporters...

Normal isn’t really a yardstick by itself. It’s a standard we create based on a stereotype. In conversation, we’ll often hear people saying what is and what isn’t normal — like talking to...

It’s freezing out here in Dallas, and several hot cups of tea later, I'm still not quite unfrozen. While I’m here, trying to be Princess Elsa (exaggeration alert), farmers in a warmer region down...

This past week, the sunshine and lovely weather in Dallas got me out a lot more, and as I walked down the sidewalk, I thought to myself how robotic and geometric the roads here are compared to the chaotic,...

This past week, the news covered tons of stuff, rehashed some old feuds (Ukraine, for instance), updated us on some others, wars raged on and planes crashed. But here’s something you might have all...

The world waited with bated breath as a new crisis evolved in the war against ISIS. You might be tired of the group already, but even as American troops continue to engage in war with the Islamic State,...