Author: Adam Lee

Religious Americans say they care about the environment, but it’s less clear that this feel-good claim translates into action.

This was the best midterm for the incumbent party in decades, and we have you-know-who to thank for it.

Whatever your political views, we need to drop the pretense that the Constitution has One True Meaning we can discover or that the founders had one monolithic opinion we can appeal to.

They don’t sense human emotion, but plants have some surprising talents. They can hear, see, learn, communicate and remember.

As our children grow up, they push back against our authority. It’s natural, and parents ought to be tolerant, rather than treating it as an offense.

Caffeine is a psychoactive and addictive drug, even if we rarely think of it that way. Still, our lives would be poorer without it.

Like the Christian theology that inspired him, J.R.R. Tolkien could never explain why a benevolent creator permitted the existence of evil.

The more we look, the more intelligence we find in nature. Even trees are capable of communicating, sharing resources, and responding to their environment.

I admit it: I’m a Ukraine news addict. I’ve gotten into the habit of starting each morning by checking a Reddit forum like r/UkrainianConflict, or the Twitter accounts tracking events in the war, or some of my fellow columnists on OnlySky. Why we follow the Ukraine war Thanks to social media, we know more about…

The technology to pull carbon dioxide out of the air could take all the urgency out of stopping climate change. It may also be unavoidable.