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As National Day of Unplugging looms (it begins a week from today) I hope we all can agree that taking time away from the frenzy of everyday life is a good thing. And pausing to reflect on the role of technology in our lives is important at a time when social technologies in particular are becoming increasingly integrated into daily life with effects that we are just beginning to describe and understand. But I do have to wonder if the keen, even if not hostile, focus on technology as such misses the phenomenological, relational, and spiritual mark just a bit.

Influential conservative journal blames society’s woes on contraception.

Justifiable homicide only if the perpetrator is the father of the fetus or is related to the pregnant woman? Why that’s practically pro-choice!

Two pending measures in Tennessee reveal that there’s actually a good government interference.

100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, a disaster that claimed the lives of 146 workers and galvanized the labor movement, public workers in Wisconsin and around the country are standing up to the largest-scale attack on American workers in recent history. Using the economic crisis as a pretext, and with financing from billionaire businessmen, Governor Scott Walker and others are trying to strip public unions of their collective bargaining power. This debate is not about trying to balance state budgets. This debate is about the future of American labor.

Nightline’s teaser clip manages to make the man who would have opposed the Civil Rights Act mainstream.

Worst. Analogy. Ever.

The latest in a long line of victories for marriage equality.