Last summer I went to the 50th anniversary of Special Olympics . By coincidence, Chicago's annual Disability Pride Parade is taking pl...

I am failing to update this blog! Sorry to the folks who follow me here. I'm working on building a new wordpress site that can be follow...

Guns kill more people than cars for the first time since the CDC began tracking causes of death for Americans. Why? Cars have been regulated...

First, Do No Harm . The doctors are paid a flat rate for each application file they review. How much they earn depends on how fast they w...

What if Twitter was the happiest, most loving, supportive place on the Internet? It could be, I found out, if you join BTS , the Korean Supe...

Houses on stilts are a way to mitigate coastal climate change. But they aren't accessible . When Superstorm Sandy flooded Liz Treston’...

I had a weird year in terms of writing. It started off normal, then I had a mental health crisis, then I had a professional crisis (brought...

New on anti-Semitic myths and the dangers they pose . From Thomas of Monmouth to David Icke's lizard people, there's a long history ...

New: Restraint in schools and the death of #MaxBenson. "It shouldn't take the death of a teenage boy to stop overuse of restraint ...

I am just finishing edits on my sixth piece on the death penalty in the last two years for Pacific Standard . Here's what I've writt...