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One of the few things I appreciate about Facebook, besides tours of my friends’ faraway lives and photos of the babies being born to my former “Baby Js”, is the…

 If not for the astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan, University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass might be writing and teaching about Nor’easters, Mount Washington in New Hampshire and Boston’s…

A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder

A conversation with a Sri Lankan journalist about news in the U.S. is a reminder to push past assumed narratives

When I asked Saadia Khan whether or not she identifies as a journalist, she said no. Her definition of a journalist: “someone with a degree in journalism or has worked…

—From the dissenting opinion to the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding Dobbs v. Jackson

The predicted reversal of Roe v. Wade, and threat to other civil rights, requires vigilance from the press — and the public

Great story ideas are everywhere, and Corinne Purtill spotted a gem on a family trip to the Los Angeles Zoo, where she learned the story of a celebrity with a…

Conclusion based on anecdotal evidence: Anyone who writes a regular column for a newspaper or magazine works harder than you know. Corollary: Community newspaper columnists, who usually can’t tap events…

In the 100-plus days since Vladimir Putin ordered his Russian army into Ukraine, I have done something I rarely do on social media: Forwarded shares, many days a week, of…