by jstewardfree | Feb 26, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Annie Lowrey | Imagine a late-night television commercial aimed at Washington’s wonks: Tired of your same old tax credits and grant proposals? Ever dreamed of a policy tool that improved children’s health, bolstered income and eradicated poverty — all without...
by jstewardfree | Feb 24, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Josh Cohen | With January over, the spirit of self-improvement in which you began the year can start to evaporate. Except now your feeble excuses are under assault from a glut of “self-tracking” devices and apps. Your weakness for saturated fats and alcohol, your...
by jstewardfree | Feb 21, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | What’s been perhaps the greatest force for democracy and freedom in the world? It was a world in which the gods “were everywhere and thought to be undependable.” That’s because, apart from “some magical powers” and “perhaps the gift of immortality,”...
by jstewardfree | Feb 18, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Gina Diorio | Confirming the pro-life trend of recent years, a new report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute shows that the abortion rate nationwide has fallen to its lowest point since 1973, the year the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortion legal. According...
by jstewardfree | Feb 17, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Carolyn Gregoire | “You shouldn’t enter college worried about what you will do when you exit,” David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, said at a World Economic Forum panel discussion last week on the state of the humanities. These words may be comforting...
by jstewardfree | Feb 14, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Andree Seu Peterson | We got whacked with snow a week ago, first the soft kind (good for shoveling but bad for snowmen), then the wet kind (backbreaking for shoveling, but we got two cool snowmen out of it). After clearing my own little piece of the American dream,...
