G. M. O.   Genetically Modified Organism. The phrase understandably strikes fear into many people, who prophesize a doomsday where nothing is “natural” anymore, supermarkets are flooded with Frankenfood blueberries at the scale of small plums, and the ecological destruction of t...

As a disclaimer, I am writing this as someone with a Middle Eastern heritage, so I check the race box “white.” That is a different story for a different day. The crusade against Affirmative Action is led by a conservative...