| Oct 10, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyCome December, the priorities and role of our government could be drastically and fundamentally altered. Are your views and concerns being heard? The supercommittee created in the wake of the debt ceiling clash is comprised of 12 members of Congress tasked with...
| Aug 8, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe pretense of lethal injection as a peaceful and painless way to execute prisoners is unraveling, and this may change the face of the death penalty in the United States. In September 2009, the state of Ohio tried to execute Romell Broom. The execution team, with...
| May 23, 2011 | Peace / SecurityThe world is transfixed as the unprecedented events in the Middle East and North Africa unfold. And foreign policy aficionados are equally transfixed as the U.S. government maneuvers between its stated values and sometimes short-sighted security policies. With...
| Mar 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyA century ago, more than a million people marched in streets across Europe on the first International Women’s Day. They called for an end to discrimination and for women to have the same rights as men to work, vote, and shape their countries’ futures. A...
| Dec 6, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe United States has made great strides to change the sickening attitudes and legal obstacles that for decades held women in the grip of physical and sexual violence, far too often with little recourse, while their abusers went unpunished. But as a nation, we can go...
