With the 2012 American political season well underway, there’s little doubt politicians and pundits will be unable to avoid playing up the divide between Main Street and Wall Street. It’s an easy sound bite and looks great in bold... Read More

The beautiful, aphid-loving ladybug has a smelly secret: she can ooze a toxic, yellow liquid from her leg joints to dissuade predators; the caterpillar of the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly masquerades itself as bird droppings; and... Read More

America is changing. According to the 2010 census data, the growth of the Hispanic population made up more than half of the US’s total population growth over the last decade. At the time of the census, Hispanics were the largest... Read More

The Emancipation of Giles Corey: the title alone evokes themes of slavery and freedom. More specifically, it conjures a ghost from that dark chapter of Puritan history in which witches swayed from the gallows. The book was included in... Read More

“Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”—Milan Kundera So begins the opening poem in Brian Barker’s second book, "The Black Ocean", and that epigraph frames the... Read More

One of every five children in the United States lives in an immigrant family today, according to The Brookings Institution. These youths face distinctive challenges that aren’t often addressed in the highly political, heated... Read More

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) blankets a range of impairments in specific areas of behavior, and though one person in every one hundred people may have ASD, no two people share the same presentation. Paul G. Taylor works as a consultant... Read More

Embracing Asperger’s is an easy-to-read guide for parents, teachers, and caregivers who routinely interact with children with Asperger’s, a complex social disorder that is on the autism spectrum. Engaging in social interaction with... Read More