AdvertisementSupported byDavid FrenchBy David FrenchOpinion ColumnistOn Friday, Aug. 18, a man named Travis Ikeguchi shot and killed Laura Ann Carleton in Cedar Glen, Calif. On Monday, the San Bernardino County sheriff Shannon Dicus said, “Investigators determined that prior to the shooting the suspect tore down a Pride, or rainbow, flag that was hanging in front of the store and yelled many homophobic slurs toward Carleton.” Ikeguchi was subsequently killed in a standoff with the police.The police highlighted elements of what […]

Zach and Sadie McElrath’s six-year-old daughter saw something at a store that caught her eye: a slingshot. But they didn’t buy it for her because it would have ultimately produced landfill waste. Instead, their daughter is figuring out how to make a slingshot with a stick and rubber bands from around the house.The McElraths, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, live a “zero waste” life. What they do throw away is compostable, except for the rare cases when they end up with […]

AdvertisementSupported byNicholas KristofBy Nicholas KristofOpinion ColumnistWhile much of the rest of the industrialized world has become more secular over the last half-century, the United States has appeared to be an exception.Politicians still end their speeches with “God bless America.” At least until recently, more Americans believed in the virgin birth of Jesus (66 percent) than in evolution (54 percent).Yet evidence is growing that Americans are becoming significantly less religious. They are drifting away from churches, they are praying less and […]