Growing up, my music collection was always a combination of two main genres: Christian worship and pop punk rock. Putting on shuffle, I would go from songs by Chris Tomlin, Hillsong, Shane and Shane, to songs from bands like Mayday Parade, Blink-182, and Simple Plan. One day, I discovered that one of the bands I […]

As an enterprising and hard-working journalist, Salena Zito drives her Jeep a lot. Just not on interstates. It isn’t that she’s avoiding speeding maniacs—you can find them on any Pittsburgh street—but she loves to see the local color and variety one can spy on pre-1950s U.S. highways. The post Trump in the Crosshairs appeared first […]

During the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt, the American Jewish population nearly doubled, to almost two million. But long before he entered the White House, Roosevelt was familiar with Jewish issues. After all, Roosevelt began his meteoric political rise in New York, America’s most Jewish city. These combined experiences have led historian Andrew Porwancher to […]

Canada is one of a handful of countries that have legalized active euthanasia — the practice of ending a patient’s life by administering a lethal drug or substance, usually by a physician, at the patient’s request. People in Canada don’t even need a terminal illness to request euthanasia — just an incurable condition they claim […]

Pedro Pascal and his sister have bonded together to attack author J.K. Rowling over the fact she wants women’s spaces for women only. The drama stems from Rowling’s support of a U.K. Supreme Court decision that stuck to including only actual women in the government’s definition of “woman.” Rowling posted a photo of herself on […]