A Florida tea party has taken another step in its effort to protect the citizens of the United States. While its current list of enemies of the state is expansive — including taxes, high-speed rail, and socialized medicine — it has not yet expanded into the realm of wildlife. While all three species of manatees [...]

On a tourist trip to Iran in the summer of 2010 I decided to visit the famous “Big Bazaar” in Southern Tehran. On my way, I found myself in a men’s compartment of the metro. In Iran, the last two compartments of each metro tram are women-only sections, and the rest of the compartments are [...]

Diseases are profitable. While that is a sad thing to think about, it’s true. Revenues are generated by illness because treating them requires resources. What’s even more upsetting is that the world seems to currently value the profits generated by disease more than seeing people freed from sickness. At 12, I was diagnosed with Type [...]

The country code “211″ has just been assigned to the newly independent Republic of South Sudan, according to an announcement by South Sudan’s current Minister for Telecommunications and Postal Services, H.E. Madut Biar Yel. The code “211″, is issued by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). It was chosen for its resemblance to this year (2011),  [...]

San Diego, CA, March 14, 2013 — After a four year campaign, UCSD’s undergraduate student government has passed a resolution urging the University of California, San Diego to cease its investments in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The bill, which was cosponsored by multiple student government members, was similar [...]

In an August interview with the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a top official of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) expressed his desire to work with American Evangelicals to combat same-sex marriage. Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the head of the department of external church relations (DECR) of the Russian Orthodox Church (also known as the [...]

Our culture is oversaturated with hypersexualized images of women. If you should know anything about Wonder Woman, it is that she was raised with the Amazonians - a society populated by immortal super-women that had once been victims of male abuse– thus, no men were allowed on their island. But if Wonder Woman grew up without the unrestricted [...]

By Alex Shams The Arab Spring electrified progressives around the world in a revolutionary momentum unlike any we have witnessed in a generation. Images of square after Arab square filled to the brim with protesters calling for democratic reforms have helped provide those of us struggling to maintain our faith in “people power” with a [...]

The so-called “choices” that people make about movement– how they get to where they’re going, and whether they bike, walk, ride, or drive there– are never merely individual decisions. Rather, these decisions are often the result of how the cities we live in have been mapped and planned over time. Los Angeles, for example, is [...]

Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, [...]