In this moment of transition, we will celebrate a different kind of new beginning: Tu BiSh’vat, the new year for trees. Tu BiSh’vat is an opportunity to celebrate the earth and to recommit ourselves, for another year, to environmental action.
As humans
January 11, 2017 marked 15 years since the opening of the detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Prison. The prison, opened by President George W. Bush, was constructed to hold suspected terrorists and enemy combatants captured by U.S.
Since the 500-page executive summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program was released just over two years ago, many people cannot access the still-classified full report.
Recently, there has been a wave of legislation introduced that would add police officers as a protected category under hate crime statutes. Bills were introduced in 15 states and in the 114th Congress. The national legislation, dubbed the “Blue Lives Matter
On Tuesday, President Obama announced a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along large swaths of the Arctic and the Atlantic seaboard, protecting 115 million acres of an especially unique and vulnerable ecosystem.
Tuesday’s action was made in
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