Robert Walker

Worried about the fate of the Euro? The student loan crisis? Unemployment? The federal deficit? Here's something we can all worry about: The latest Living Planet Report, published by the Global Footprint Network and the World Wildlife Fund, indicates that humanity is now consuming resources at a pace...

It's time that Mom gets a little more appreciation.

Ask any mother and she will tell you: It's not easy being a mother. It's not just the nine months of pregnancy or even the delivery; it's the commitment that goes with nurturing a child and providing for its future....

Scientists get no respect these days. When they speak, no one listens. It doesn't matter how many scientists are speaking, what they are saying, or what their qualifications are, they get a fraction of the media attention lavished on a reality TV star or an American Idol contestant.

In his presidential campaign Rick Santorum talked obliquely about "the dangers of contraception." Ross Douthat, the New York Times blogger and author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, comes a lot closer to revealing what those dangers are. In an...

Like a comet streaking across the heavens, Governor Nikki Haley's comment on The View about women not caring about contraception is drawing a lot of attention. And rightly so.

Poll after poll suggests that women do care about contraception. Case...

We now have a new planet to add to the growing list of Earth-like planets that are being discovered by astronomers. Let's call it Planet D in honor of Michelle Duggar, the reality TV star who has 19 children.

On Planet D there's no such thing as overpopulation. The...

After completing his 7-mile trip to the bottom of the ocean floor, James Cameron, said he felt like he had gone to "another planet." And, in a sense, he had. Water pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is so extreme that it's like "three...

When South Korean scientists announce, as they did earlier this month, that they hope to clone a Woolly Mammoth, the world listens, but if poachers kill 200 elephants in the African bush, as they did recently in Cameroon, does anyone really care? Does our love of...

You know that the political season is heating up when the topic turns to dogs or, more specifically, Romney's alleged mistreatment of the family dog. As a dog lover, I cringe at the thought that on long trips Romney used to tie his dog's house to the top of his...

No one, except perhaps Bill O'Reilly, is willing to defend Rush Limbaugh's latest attempt at character assassination. Obviously, Limbaugh went too far in calling a Georgetown student a "slut" and a "prostitute" for asserting that health insurance for women should include coverage of birth control. Okay....

It now appears that Rick Santorum is likely to be in the GOP presidential race for weeks, if not months, to come. If so, we should get to know him a little better. He just might be the next President of the United States.

It's not clear yet what he...

All across America, women are responding to the latest attacks on their reproductive health and rights. Female legislators, leading feminists and concerned women everywhere are fighting back. Good for them, but where are the men?

On the other side of the reproductive divide, there is no shortage...

Valentine's Day is for lovers. And if you really love someone, you really care about his or her health. So why are so many men sitting on the sidelines as social and religious conservatives work to shut down family planning clinics and limit a women's access to contraception and other...

The global economy is just a euro-slide away from another recession and we could be just weeks or even days away from a major conflict with Iran, but the emerging frontrunner for the GOP nomination is focusing, laser-like, on the real threat facing America: contraception.

The danger, it appears, is...

In a world gone mad, it shouldn't surprise that North Dakota is now requiring that the health education provided in the state include information on the benefits of abstinence within marriage, not just before marriage. Nor should it come as a surprise that the fiercest anti-abortion advocates would...

If the current GOP presidential primary campaign is remembered for nothing else, it will be known for the meteoric rise of the "anti-contraception conservatives."

The Republican leadership has been anti-abortion since time immemorial, but there was a time, not that long ago really, when Republican leaders supported or, at...

Quietly, without ritual or public fanfare, the Western Black Rhino this year was officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. None are believed left in the wild.

To borrow a phrase from Abraham Lincoln, the world will little note, nor long remember the...

I once knew Newt. It was 1978 and Newt, despite having lost two times previously, was interested in running again for Congress. I was working for the House Republican Conference, which at the time was chaired by John Anderson, a liberal Republican who would later abandon his party and run...

With the latest climate change conference winding down to another uneventful close, it appears that the fight to cap greenhouse gas emissions is suffering from "locked-in syndrome."

Doctors use that term to describe a patient's neurological state when they are fully conscious and capable of hearing, but unable...

This "super committee" does not have any meetings scheduled this week, and despite the urgency and importance of its mission, it has no legal mandate or deadline. It doesn't even have a formal membership. For all practical purposes it doesn't exist.

The accumulating debt that it needs to address...