Unfortunately, last year’s “The Last Airbender” race-debacle seems to have taught Hollywood casting...
Author - Emily Brooks
LGBT adoption bill would help children
On Friday, Sen. Kristin Gillibrand, D-NY, announced that she will introduce a new adoption...
Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would widen income gap
America’s tax system needs reform, and on that point few would disagree. The complexities of the...
Mind the gap: Sex-segregated classrooms will not close the...
The way we think about the gender gap in America is changing. By 2019, 59 percent of college...
GOP adopts Prohibitionist mentality
Raise a glass to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Their new documentary “Prohibition” aired on PBS last...
E-books will inspire new readers
Five years ago the e-book was nearly unheard of, but this month more than 11,000 public libraries...
Resistance to vaccinations are baseless
Since Andrew Wakefield’s, now thoroughly discredited, Lancet publication regarding so-called links...
GOP to gain votes from ID bill
When the voting rights act was implemented in 1965, the spirit of the law was to put an end to...
UH needs more women in leadership positions
When the University Commission on Women released its report in 2007 on the status of women at UH, a...
Florida state rep wants anti-cohabitation law to remain in effect
There are a lot of strange laws on the books across the US. In Houston, for instance, it is illegal...