Op-Ed

The agony of loss the parents of Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff must feel is beyond comprehension. But is their pain any different from the universal pain of violence …

The hottest conflicts raging at the moment defy easy answers.

Massive economic damage and human suffering resulting from the 2008 financial crisis continue unabated while the implications of this crisis continue to elude us.

While the US criminal justice system offers revenge as its principal method of restitution, families may find better solutions for achieving remorse and true rehabilitation.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has made it quite clear as well that every stage of livestock production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.

A two-minute sample of why we should end all war, recorded for submission to TED talks.

Today, those first responders who managed to survive 9/11 are dying off, and our government is doing very little about it.

Children around the world deserve a quality education without the fear of being abducted, recruited for and coerced into armed combat.

If you want to bomb a country every time an evil group murders people in a gruesome manner, you'll have to bomb a lot of countries including our own.

You can see the urge of the United States' new crop of billionaires to “play god” at our expense and with our lives - to decide for us, ad …