by Monty Self | Jun 2, 2022 | Opinion
The U.S. has a long history of immigration. Outside of descendants of the continent’s Indigenous peoples and those Africans forced to its shores for enslavement, it is a nation of immigrants. U.S. immigration rates began to rise after the Civil War, peaking between...
by Leroy Seat | Nov 7, 2011 | Opinion
The UnitedNationsPopulationFund projected that the world population reached 7 billion people on Oct. 31. When I was born in 1938, the global human population was under 2.3 billion. So in my lifetime the population of the world has tripled, and then some. Population...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 10, 2009 | Opinion
Was the invention of the birth control pill a good thing or a bad thing? Most people, I suspect, have never considered the options. In a world of limited resources that continues to be threatened by overpopulation, there are good arguments for seeing the invention of...