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The Cost of Compassion: Why Churches Turn Their Backs on Torture Victims
When compassion becomes politically inconvenient, churches turn their backs.
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Rewriting the Future
The only way we know we can challenge the divine right of kings is by being able to imagine a world where kings no longer rule us - or …
Heeding the Call: Black Women Fighting for Black Lives That Matter
Black women activists have been at the head of a new movement.
Oregon Approves Breakthrough Voter Registration Law
Seamless, electronic registration process at DMVs will add at least 300,000 to the rolls initially.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Ideologically Dictated Worldview
It would appear that while Netanyahu certainly does not speak for all the Jews, or even all Israeli Jews, he might, perversely, speak for most of the US Congress.
Massive Corruption Scandal Implicates Brazil’s Amazon Dam Builders
Testimony from jailed operators of Petrobras scandal point to similar corruption scheme involving politicians and major construction firms.
Servant Leaders vs. Empty Suits
An alternative vision of global security is taking shape, based in initiatives that slowly build trust on the basis of overlapping environmental crises and other challenges that simply cannot …
How Did Syria Get Here?
Wars may be how Americans learn geography, but do they always learn the history of how the geography was shaped by wars?
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Leonard Nimoy
Do the Americans With Disabilities and Civil Rights Acts Apply to Police Operations?
The Supreme Court's ruling about whether the police had a right to shoot a mentally ill woman wielding a knife has broad ramifications.