| May 1, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAbortion, condoms, Things that vex, Those who would Prohibit sex. Fewer American teens are getting pregnant and the national abortion rate is falling. Time to break out the champagne and the bananas flambé, right? But many religious zealots aren’t celebrating...
| Apr 30, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyGosh, it seems like only yesterday that we saw George W. Bush on TV reading The Pet Goat to some second graders. Now he’s all grown up and has an entire , super-duper, king-sized library filled with big books and other neat stuff — all dedicated to him....
| Apr 24, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyA quick Google search of “politicians are” returns the following four suggestions: like diapers, sociopaths, the lowest form of life, and liars. A recent Public Policy Polling study found politicians to be less popular than the conqueror Genghis Khan or...
| | Rights / DemocracyHalf a year ago, Colorado and Washington voters approved ballot measures to make marijuana legal in their states. But ending the pot prohibition can’t happen overnight, even after electoral wins like that. Just ask Gil Kerlikowske, the nation’s “drug...
| Apr 10, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThe Associated Press recently announced a major change in the way it describes people with an unlawful presence in the United States. The AP Stylebook, which spells out the standards most media outlets use, no longer sanctions the terms “illegal” and...
| | Rights / DemocracyConfusion reigned supreme in the nation’s highest court last month as it heard arguments on two same-sex marriage cases. Confronted with the possibility of endorsing the right of men to marry men and women, women, the Justices resembled nothing so much as a...