[Originally published in Synapse on February 10, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin...

Surgery — one of the three primary treatment options for cancer, alongside radiation and chemotherapy — had always been a...

[Originally published in on February 7, 2013.] Welcome to the Year of the Snake! Snake is the yin to last...

Have you ever noticed how a waterfall falls? Spirits of glacial spittle traverse towards the earth at different rates.

[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2004.] A critically ill man who is infected with TB sits at home...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.] The chain of events that began on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama...

I am a young woman On oral contraceptives And ripe for endothelial injury: I am afflicted with clumsiness

The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 15, 1965.] So much has been said about patriotism lately that your editor was...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 8, 2005.] Following the withdrawal of Harriet Myers’ nomination for Supreme Court justice, President...

People say that because we were born on the other side, in the north, we are neither from here nor...

There was a time when I thought everything in the future was predictable. Then, there came a time when I...

Internal war, but external battles So much anger, so incontrollable Embarrassed, but should I be?

[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 2, 1993.] Every year there are some four million unintended pregnancies in the United...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 16, 1995.] Tuition increases, affirmative action, library resources, and maternity leave were the main...