Ronald Reagan, in his 1981 inaugural address, said one of the most ignorant things ever uttered by a U.S. president of the pre-Trump era: “In this...
I’m wary of people who are fully confident in what they’ve written. Don’t they know that what they’ve set out to do is impossible, that they are...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared a “people’s war” against the coronavirus. But as Aeschylus, the ancient Greek playwright, apocryphally...
One of the first documentaries I produced was a biography of Styles Bridges, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire. Few people in 2020 know much about...
(Part two of a three-part series. Read part one here.)When my father, Lt. Thomas C. Colt Jr., returned to San Diego in 1943 from a leave with his...
Do you think it is permissible to yell “fire” in a crowded movie theater in order to create a panic? How about whether it is legal to speak to a...
Last year was difficult for reproductive rights in many parts of the country. State legislatures passed 25 abortion bans throughout the South and...
We should all be able to trust that when we fill up a glass with water, it’s safe to drink. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. With more...