| Apr 26, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyDr. Dorothy Height was a lantern and role model for millions of women and a long-haul social change agent, blessed with uncommon commitment and talent. Her fingerprints are quietly embedded in many of the transforming events of the last seven decades as African...
| | Environment / HealthThe Clean Water Act protected the nation’s waters for decades, from the Great Lakes and Mississippi River, to small headwater streams and associated wetlands. Yet Congress and the Supreme Court have allowed the act to falter for the past nine years....
| Apr 19, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyOur nation is running a $1.4 trillion-dollar budget deficit this year. So why is Congress on track to approve more than $1 trillion for “defense” spending, while cutting back services that most countries think of as human rights? Even in the wake of...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe soldiers burst into Fernanda Hernández’s house at eight in the morning. There were 39 of them. Fernanda was with her two young children. “I told them we don’t have any weapons,” said Hernández (not her real name). “They barged right...
| | Rights / DemocracyColleges prepare all year for the lucrative chance to send a team to the basketball championship tournament commonly known as “March Madness.” But, when it comes to making sure that student-athletes are academically prepared for the game of life, madness...
