Cory Franklin

"Anti-vaxxers" is the 21st century term that refers to those who oppose vaccination in preventing infectious diseases. During the 2016 presidential campaign, the term went mainstream when two candidates, Jill...

Now that the Super Bowl is over, it's time to note that when NFL immortals such as Troy Aikman and Bo Jackson publicly announce they would never allow their children...

In a legendary New Yorker essay about baseball great Ted Williams, novelist John Updike referred to the "tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill." That...

Is the personal autograph dying at the hands of our selfie-absorbed culture? In lieu of the traditional scribbled signature on a piece of paper, fans now often take a selfie...

By sitting during the pregame national anthem, second-string quarterback Colin Kaepernick has become the fashionable face of political protest by an athlete. No matter how legitimate the cause he is...

In a perverse way, you have to give Ryan Lochte credit. Not only did he hijack the Olympic coverage from Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Simone Biles, but if being...

In our contemporary atmosphere where great works of art are scrutinized for possible offense, it's popular to suggest that Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" should no longer be performed because...