How do you make your baby healthy? If you live in Solapur (in Western India), and if you believe in religion, ritual and tradition rather than modern science and common sense, you drop your baby from the top of a tall building. I cringed while watching this video, thinking that…
Jon Stewart takes a close look at some of the basic tenets of "Abstinence Only Sex Education" and finds this approach deficient.
What is truth? Such a timely topic these days, now that we seem to be in the post-truth era. I gathered these quotes on the meaning of truth from my favorite quote site, The Quotations Page. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George…
The United States and the European Union have taken a “criminal path” by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today.At a press conference in Geneva, Jean Ziegler of Switzerland…
Arrest George W. Bush. That is the suggestion of Ted Rall, writing on Common Dreams. Who should arrest President Bush? There is, however, a person who could begin holding Bush and the others accountable for their crimes. She is Cathy L. Lanier, the 39-year-old chief of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.…