Eight states and over 130 U.S. cities have renamed the holiday that falls on the second Monday of October to honor instead America's first inhabitants. There is a growing movement to change the name of Columbus Day because of the atrocities committed… more »

"What I want to know is, where are the women?" asked Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) before walking out on an all-male opening panel in a 2012 congressional hearing on contraception coverage in Obamacare. "I look at this panel and I don't see one single… more »

In my book “moderate Taliban” ranks right up there with “organic vienna sausage” as an oxymoron. But the President seems to be reaching out to the so-called moderate militias in Afghanistan in talking about how to end the violence and fix the unending… more »

The following is an excerpt from a current article on youth.gov According to a recently released Institute of Medicine (IOC) and National Research Council (NRC) report, Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the… more »

https://earthcharter.org/discover/ The Earth Charter is an ethical framework for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared… more »