Alicia Silverstone poses nude for PETA and animal rights
Although PETA’s protest techniques are a bit unorthodox, they successfully continue to raise awareness against animal cruelty and rampant abuse.
California police officer under investigation after punching teen on video
“How many of these videos must we see before we do something about police violence in this country?”
Spain’s housing crisis is a warning for all of Europe – rights mean nothing...
Spain has a constitutional right to housing – but it hasn’t stopped rents and property prices from skyrocketing.
How climate change ensures hotter weather as new normal for Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon serves as an apt metaphor for the future challenges of a hotter planet.
Special needs school fires educators for mocking autistic child on audio recording
Instead of expressing a modicum of compassion for the special needs student, his teacher and a teacher’s aide incessantly derided the boy and his condition with open disdain.
Inequality kills. But we can stop the killing.
So argues a gripping new book from an activist physician who’s helped divine the keys to long and healthy life.
Ted Cruz’s Stone-Age Brain and Yours
Ted Cruz may be able to build up his poll numbers by promising to carpet bomb foreigners in the Middle East of whom we are fearful, but at least we know that biology doesn’t have to dictate our response. Our brains don’t have to stay in the Stone Age.
Trump trifecta abuses science, world diplomacy and Mother Nature
Rejecting the Paris accord is the culmination of Trump’s (literally) scorched earth presidency: destroy willy nilly on the irrational assumption what comes next must be better.
Fear: What Police Reform Doesn’t Address
The most effective reforms are the ones that build community trust between citizens and the police that serve them.
‘Totally unacceptable’: US rejecting 90% of Afghans seeking asylum under humanitarian program
"We don't feel safe," lamented one Afghan asylum-seeker whose brothers translated for U.S. invasion forces. "We don't know what will happen in an hour. We don't know what will happen tomorrow."









