Author: Steven D

(Photograph of non-starving woman and children during the Great Depression, courtesy of blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu) and Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer employed by the Federal Resettlement Administration and the Farm...

Everyone knows that the southwestern United States and much of the western and Great Plains states are in deep trouble because of severe drought conditions. Less well known is the effect drought has had on the Great Lakes...

Can’t say I didn’t see this coming. George Zimmerman’s lawyers have released copies of text messages and pictures from Trayvon Martin’s cell phone in an attempt to smear his reputation before the trial....

Let me begin this rant by stating my principles as straightforwardly as I can: All people who suffer deserve our assistance and aid. All people means all people, regardless of political ideology, religious beliefs or...

Hey, nobody has died – yet – from the latest episode in our favorite All-American pastime: Shooting people with guns because — just because we can. Oh and 2nd amendment, etc. Police today are searching for...