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Somalia gets hit with the “F” word, again
A joint publication by Saba Michael and Erin Brodwin It might not be a four-letter-word, but the term Famine, now used to describe the state of mass starvation in Somalia, is not thrown around...
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California high speed rail: new state public transit would bypass those most...
The so-called “choices” that people make about movement– how they get to where they’re going, and whether they bike, walk, ride, or drive there– are never merely individual decisions. Rather, these...
View ArticleUnlikely bedfellows: Russian Orthodoxy and American Evangelicals unite to...
In an August interview with the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a top official of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) expressed his desire to work with American Evangelicals to combat same-sex...
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Deforestation in Borneo: Its impact on indigenous societies and implications...
When it comes to the topic of environmental degradation in Borneo, conservationists have become the new colonialists. From the conservationist standpoint, forests are seen as pristine sources of...
View ArticleIs the U.S. contributing to human rights violations by importing shrimp?
Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal...
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The need for Cherokee Nation independence and the end of bureaucratic apartheid
Many in Indian Country are painfully aware of the circus performance that is this summer’s Principal Chief election for the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S., the Cherokee Nation. This...
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A forgotten people
It is a conflict seldom talked about in the Western hemisphere and even less so in the United States. While we often pride ourselves in thinking that colonialism and the oppression of one people by...
View ArticleThe Meat and Potatoes of American Health
As I write this, a single piece of legislation with the greatest potential to improve America’s health sits in limbo in our nation’s capital. As soon as a few weeks from today, the government will...
View ArticleSupreme Court and Affordability of Care
Few foresaw the direction that the Supreme Court would take the decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as PPACA or Obamacare. Immediately after the decision, public...
View ArticleBeyond the Second
Prior to his dropout from the University of Colorado, Aurora theater-shooter James Holmes had been seeing a mental health specialist at the University. However, school specialists, trained mostly to...
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