As this decade ticks to its close, I am left thinking about fear. Racism, heterosexism, misogyny and xenophobia are still fueling our lives and shaping our world, and the common denominator is fear.
The U.S. should strongly condemn Tehran's reckless behavior, but it should not forget that Iran is closer to a vibrant democracy than most dictatorships that have good relationships with the West.
The execution of Akmal Shaikh, a heroin smuggler who suffered from bipolar disorder, raises questions about China's treatment of mentally ill prisoners.
Nushin Ebadi, Shirin's younger sister, has been arrested by Iranian officials during a Monday sweep of the home they shared in Tehran. The move is obviously directed at the Nobel Laureate.
We have been on a journey," says the psychologist who is leading the final session of Mohammed's mind-body skills group. "Men and women speaking together from their hearts, all finding new friends."
Baseball fans everywhere can now rejoice. There is a new Negro League version of Strat-O-Matic, a board game that preceded all of the rotisserie leagues that have proliferated in recent years.
Human Rights Day--Here at Home Maria Foscarinis National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty December 10 was Human Rights Day, a worldwide commemor...
The world will never dispatch a savior to Congo who, like the paraplegic Marine Jake in the James Cameron epic Avatar, will damn self-serving interests and decide to protect a unique world and complicated society.
Accepting people for who they are seems to me to be what Christmas ought to be about. As a nation, we still aren't doing that with gay men and women in the military services.
It would be great if senators listened to all the polls the left likes to cite when defending the public option. I suppose polls are hard to pay attention to when August is still vivid in your mind.
A 59-page UN inquiry determined that the junta leader of the West African nation of Guinea "had direct responsibility" for killings, rapes and other atrocities against peaceful protesters.
I need not tell you that we are in the red zone with less than one minute to go in the game. What you need to do is get mad, get angry, even pissed off, at what you see not occurring.
In Colombia there is an expression: la paz del cementerio - the peace of the graveyard. This is the kind of peace that powerful forces enjoy when everyone who resists them is dead and buried.
Who will be our Lieberman? Who will be our Nelson? There has to be someone who will stand for us because when one woman is demeaned in the name of the greater good, that's not progress, that's a sign of a country in deep crisis.
David Kaufman, like most of us, assumes way too much about race and sexuality without acknowledging all of the picture. That's something we can be proactive about addressing, rather than unproductively ranting about.
In 2009-2010, it is about time that we turn our attention to the plight of homeless people -- a forgotten hate crime group -- who are being attacked in growing numbers, based simply on an ugly stereotype.
Is it me, or is Obama's health care bill increasingly like the movie Groundhog Day? Another day, another women's health smackdown. Women's health is under assault.
If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.
The only thing that will end this oneiric sequence of being shut in and forced out, is the end of the immigration restrictions for Cubans. I want to have the right to travel.
The path to ratifying CEDAW would be much easier if our Senate, like those of 23 other countries including Rwanda, Argentina, Angola, Costa Rica and much of Europe, had 30 percent women.
In his State of the Union Address in January 2003, President George W. Bush gave one of his more eloquent and moving speeches about his upcoming ...
