About half the population will be happy on this Inauguration Day, the other half not so much. There must be a better way to distribute political power so that happiness (which, after all, is written ...

When a band owns a catalog as deep and wide as Modest Mouse — seven full-length albums dating back 27 years, almost all of which contain around an hour's worth of music — fans are bound to hold their ...

It’s no secret that Americans are deeply divided this election year. Yet we pretty much agree on what the issues are. In poll after poll, people on both sides of the partisan divide put immigration, ...

This modest proposal is not a satire after Swift’s 18 th century satirical Modest Proposal in which he suggested that the British solve the Irish overpopulation problem by eating Irish children. My ...

In 1729, British clergyman Jonathan Swift penned a biting satire to solve the growing disparity of wealth arising from the exploitative English rule of Ireland. His “modest proposal” to solve the ...

Imagine a world where death and old age are nearly defeated. A happy, roomy place where clean drinking water is available year-round, and no one is ever in a hurry. Would you like to live in such a ...