The affable, soft-spoken dairy farmer stood outside his 70-stall milking barn on his 230-acre family farm. When his father started farming there in 1950 were ...

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The battle for the rights of animals is not only about animals. It is about us. Once we desanctify animals we desanctify all life. And ...

It was one of the most stirring speeches an American president had ever given. The place was Prague; the year was 2009; the president was ...

There is more truth about American journalism in the film “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative ...

The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs.  In these comments, I can only provide a few hints ...

Today, one in three persons born into middle class households will fall out of that status as adults. Small business owners, suburban homeowners, and skilled ...

The Palestinians of Gaza are guilty of that new post-Cold War misdemeanor: voting while Muslim. The punishment for this crime has been eight years of ...

According to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, world military expenditures totaled nearly $1.75 trillion in 2013. Although, after accounting for inflation, ...