Missing Perspectives Blog Posts

Which map of COVID-19 coronavirus cases elicits more alarm? This map: Screenshot: 12:03 pm EST on March 27, Johns Hopkins real-time coronavirus map Or this map: Via Foster’s Outriders, published March...

Editor's note - This is an opinion piece. For further reading and opposing viewpoints, check out Why does U.S. health care cost so much? The hidden-in-plain-sight answer or Why Is American Health Care...

Police racism and brutality are topics that have people drawing sides. Part I of this series describes how many of us tend to focus on one aspect of the problem without considering, or sometimes even...

Read Parts II, III and IV Lately the media has seemed inundated with reports of alleged police brutality. Now, the recent murders of policemen in Dallas and Baton Rouge add another wrinkle to this gra...

Should bathrooms be gender-neutral? In recent months this question has been the subject of countless articles, television discussions and national magazine covers. The people at the Broadway show Kink...

Donald Trump had a big night Tuesday night. But he had an even bigger night with delegates because of the GOP delegate rules. Winning an impressive 57% of all the votes cast, he received 95% of the de...

Few people believe Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have much in common. But while Sanders and Trump may be polar opposites in some respects, they’re alike in some very fundamental ways. And their popu...

What does freedom mean to you? Do you think we should be free to speak our minds, or do you think we should we be free from hearing opinions that insult our beliefs? Are you willing to give up the rig...

There are two sides to every story. If we only consider the story from one point of view, are we truly thinking for ourselves, or simply being told what to think? “We tend to choose up sides very quic...

As I sat through orientation for jury duty the morning of January 5, the irony did not escape me. The jury clerk thanked us prospective jurors, underscoring that we’d been summoned away from our jobs...