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Show a little respect May is many things, but did you know it’s International Respect for Chickens Month? And if a whole month seems like...

A new Gallup poll released earlier this week finds that self-reported cannabis consumption nearly doubled in the last two years. Thirty-three million people, or 13...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: A report in the prestigious British medical journal BMJ says that almost 1 percent of young pregnant women in the U.S. claim to be virgins. They testify that they have conceived a fetus without the benefit of sex. That’s impossible, right? ...

Phlegming gags on tax hike...

NEW OIL AND GAS REGS MEAN NOTHING IF INDUSTRY MONITORS ITSELF...

Your tax dollars at work...

Dear Dan: You may not be the right person to answer this, but your commenters might be able to help. I love and support my friends who are transgender, but I don’t understand all the 18- to 21-year-olds among my friends who are declaring themselves “gender-neutral.” ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: America’s Civil War ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive...

It’s the end of the world as R.E.M. knows it With how things are going, there’s only one thing we can count on: The end...

ARIES March 21-April 19: The Aries poet Anna Kamienska described the process of writing as akin to “the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as...

I was 16 years old when my father asked me if I wanted to be a hero. The year was 1999, ’round about late April, and Dad...

My friend Aisha places a hand on each of my shoulders. “You got this,” she says. “You totally got this.” We’re standing in a campground...