You can argue against the alleged merits of taxation if you so desire — certainly there are reasons to do so. Nobody enjoys the experience of paying taxes — of watching your hard-earned money, the literal fruits of your labor, going to pay for society’s upkeep. But we live in a world ...

Whenever our community experiences a tragedy, we are faced with extraordinarily difficult ethical decisions. As journalists, our responsibility is to inform the public about events that shape our community, even when those events involve profound loss. We do this work because an informed ...

When’s the last time you had a cup of orange juice? When you think of orange juice, you probably think of Florida — although, of course, they are hardly the only place that produces oranges. Here’s the thing: Florida oranges are doomed. There is an outstanding piece published by ...

Whether you loved him or hated him, you cannot deny the influence Viktor Orban has had on the world during his time in politics — nor the iron grip he had on his own country’s electoral machine. And yet, on Sunday, the people of Hungary decided that, after 16 years in office, enough was ...

There are few things that we can be as proud of as Americans as winning the space race and putting the first men on the moon. At our best, we have a fixation on the horizon — a burning need to explore, to see what lies beyond. It’s an urge that is deeply ingrained in our culture — we ...

The powerless feeling that there is nothing we can do is pervasive in our modern society: a gnawing terror that nobody hears our needs, or perhaps that the people in positions of power are choosing to ignore us. Meanwhile, the world around us keeps moving forward, as it has ever done and, ...