Emergent Biotechnology: A Dual-Edged Sword

Over the past year, torrents of tweets, rhetoric of “fire and fury,” and debates over “button” sizes have kept the world’s attention on the threats of nuclear weapons. After all, much of today’s adult population lived through the Cold War, an era when prospects of nuclear war veered dangerously close to reality. But despite the … Read more

When Politics Turn Deadly: The Failure of California’s Proposition 62

With nationwide progress on the abolition of the death penalty, and with California’s clear lead on a host of progressive issues, one would have expected that California’s Proposition 62 to abolish the death penalty in 2016 would have sailed through. And yet, for the second time in a decade, California voters rejected such a proposition, … Read more