Yearly Archives: 2017
LAPD officer posted ‘don’t drink and drive’ video in bar before causing fatal crash
“I cannot tell you how angry and disappointed I am that a Los Angeles Police Officer would disregard the law and cause an accident with such awful, awful consequences.”
Engaging North Korea successfully on human rights
Despite a generally abysmal human rights record, North Korea has shown improvement in one specific area: disability rights.
Wasted lives: The worldwide tragedy of youth suicide
Principles of goodness together with the golden seed of social justice – sharing – need to be the guiding ideals of a radically redesigned socio-economic paradigm.
Do better than a rip-off health care system
Universal care would unite our society under the essential democratic principle that we Americans really are "all in this together."
Taking a knee, standing for justice
Principled stands taken at great risk are often how movements are born.
MAGA vs. Juggalo: The fight that was not to be
A pro-Trump rally and a Juggalo rights march the same day in the same city. What were the differences?
2.9 million children are threatened by toxic air pollution from oil & gas development
Living within a 1/2 mile of these production facilities is clearly correlated with negative health impacts.
Want to fix America’s health care? First, focus on food
To cut down on disease, we should make it a top nonpartisan priority to end our nation’s nutrition crisis.
Germany and the rise of a ‘Fascist International’
Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we're one step closer to globalizing the alt-right.
Our health care system is a corporate care system
Why is our health system flailing? Because its guiding ethic is profit, not care.