2 Trillion dollars later and hundreds of thousands dead or displaced, the world is predictably less safe for the west than it was - and j...

The U.S. is the undisputed world leader in incarceration, as it is the world leader in military dominance.  On December 10 - International...

Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the wo...

The enormous resonance of the story in The Hunger Games suggests it’s caught something many Americans sense: the rules we are currently l...

Ebola is less a story about a bizarre new disease and its unpredictably disastrous capacities, and more a sad old story about poverty and ...

For some reason, Democrats candidates didn't seem to consider the possibility that maybe being embarrassed to be a Democrat is not th...

To successfully transform our society from its current obsession with acquiring material goods, we need to help connect people with their ...

Republicans (many of whom don't want government to be considered as an effective tool) benefit from public disgust—even if their cons...

Conservative icon/federal judge changes mind on photo ID laws, issues blistering dissent against them. Judge Richard Posner, the Reagan-ap...

Public health experts unanimously agree: sealing borders will not stop Ebola spread and will only exacerbate the crisis in West Africa — ...

The proposal—to establish a committee that would review course materials to ensure they promote patriotism and avoid encouragement of ...

“To say Muslim countries, as though Pakistan and Turkey are the same… it’s frankly, and I use this word seriously, stupid!” Comedian Bil...

Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of ISIL. Shouldn’t the public know about their lin...

There is no military solution to the problem of ISIS. Military actions will not set the stage for political solutions; they will prevent t...

Often what we try to ban is the very same thing we do not understand. The story of Shariah in Indonesia's Aceh province is a telling l...

Though the militants of ISIS would undoubtedly be horrified to think so, they are the spawn of Washington. 13 years of regional war, occup...

The restructuring of local police departments into what look like occupying military forces has become a national trend.  Democratic and R...

"The Palestinian Christians, they don't live in an isolated area where oh, this is a Christian town. No, they live among the Mus...

Why does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, and why did he use the tragic kidnapp...

Waste is not something we need to take for granted. It represents a fundamentally broken pattern of consumption. The way we use and dispos...

Tax credits, like the child tax credit (CTC) and the earned income tax credit (EITC), keep more people – including children – out of pov...

Many of the children — who largely hail from gang-ridden Honduras, the country with the world’s highest murder rate, and neighboring El Sa...

Last week's decision is the latest in a 200-year-long line of rulings giving businesses the same rights as humans. Last week's Hob...

“Few people are elevating social and economic conditions that compel people to take such dangerous risks by crossing the U.S. border or ...

Corporations can’t pray, but they do have religious rights. Hobby Lobby isn’t a person. It’s a chain of crafts stores owned by a religious...

Torture is mostly practiced as a means of dehumanizing enemies. Real life doesn't look like “24″ or “Zero Dark Thirty” – even in the ...

Human life is significant enough to allow wide latitude for. That is what necessitates the leftist part of my position. Abortions are as...

Over the past 100 years or so, polarization and inequality have often moved in tandem. Thomas Piketty's " Capital in the 21st Ce...

Walls separate. That’s their job. But unleash the PSHHH of an aerosol can of paint and maybe a wall can bring people together. So tho...