This Week’s Independent Thinker

Kids are doing remarkable things. In past issues we’ve featured teenagers who insisted on doing things their way – saving part-time paychecks to buy...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Facing east were 13 colonies full of people in a raw, unmapped land, staring at the Atlantic Ocean. Inhabitants were taxed, but not allowed...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Shania Clifford is a high school junior and SkillsUSA masonry student who won the gold medal in Ohio’s Skills USA competition by 72 points. “She...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

He didn’t lie to get out of the draft. He got in the face of the draft, calling war immoral and going to jail...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Dressed to the nines in an idyllic setting next to a lake for a formal wedding and nothing can possibly go wrong, right? Before the...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Alex Ruiz is a server at Cinco de Mayo Mexican Grill in Douglasville, Georgia. Recently a man walked in, ordered his food and sat down...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

We’re such suckers for brilliance that’s also precious. Cincinnati cop James Givens was sitting in his patrol car last week when he heard a pecking...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Alaa Murabit is founder of Voice of Libyan Women, focused on using words, not guns, to achieve diplomacy, cooperation, peace and security. Murabit is convinced,...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

A person has to be mighty old to remember when nails, balls, pencils, cauliflower and nearly every item sold in a grocery, hardware or...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Good works have an unspoken effect on those who do the giving as much as on those who receive. Sometimes it’s outside our comfort...