It is a conflict seldom talked about in the Western hemisphere and even less so in the United States.  While we often pride ourselves in thinking that colonialism and the oppression of one people by another are things of the past, a remote desert territory in North Africa reminds us that this is yet to [...]

Many in Indian Country are painfully aware of the circus performance that is this summer’s Principal Chief election for the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S., the Cherokee Nation. This election season; however, has brought to the surface a plethora of social and economic issues from same-sex marriage, health care, citizenship of the descendants [...]

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, [...]

When it comes to the topic of environmental degradation in Borneo, conservationists have become the new colonialists. From the conservationist standpoint, forests are seen as pristine sources of wilderness and wildlife, untouched by the human hand and unseen by the human eye. The goal of conservation in Borneo is to preserve important areas of biodiversity [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]