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Last week, I was invited to speak to 40 high school freshman about human rights. When we discussed the right to be free from torture, I asked the students …

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According to Science Times, the Tuesday science section in The New York Times, scientific retractions are on the rise because of a

The colonists who founded this country fought a revolutionary war against taxation without representation. More than 200 years later, one of the greatest American ironies is that our capital …

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Abortions are very common procedures, and are among the safest of any kinds of procedures performed in the United States. But like any medical intervention, from giving birth to …

In the 1958 cult horror classic The Thing That Couldn’t Die, a young lass out water-witching (of all things) discovers a curious and ancient box–one that, whether you follow …

The history of equality from antiquity onward reveals that the notion of equality has been considered a constitutive feature of justice whether in its formal, proportional or moral sense. …

Occupy Wall Street protesters march at Zuccotti Park on November 5, 2011. (Photo: David Shankbone) It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch at this point to say …