Friday, March 29, 2024

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.

Our health care system is a corporate care system

Why is our health system flailing? Because its guiding ethic is profit, not care.

Can centrism be a movement? The answer may surprise you

Real centrism, based on the needs and ideals of most voters, could very well become a movement.

Saudi women may soon be behind the wheel, but still not in the drivers’...

Though a hard-won victory for Saudi women, we should recognize that the biggest impediment for women has not been the inability to drive.