Some 2 million or more undocumented young people call the U.S. home. About 65,000 graduate from public high schools every year. These cross-border children are indistinguishable from U.S.-born kids, tapping out text messages and watching gory horror movies and navigating the shoals of adolescence in status-conscious high-school cafeterias. But under current law, they have no [...]

The criminalization of marijuana in the United States has resulted in 15 million people have become prisoners in our jails. According to the California Legislative Analysts and the Director of Finance an estimate of at least several tens of millions of dollars can be saved on the costs of incarceration of marijuana offenders. In addition [...]

Population estimates suggest that the world population will reach nine billion in the next century and statistics show that moving away from natural processes of living  is a primary cause for population crisis.   The global population has tripled since the 1950s by which time fifty percent of the infants in the United States were fed [...]

With American oil supplies dwindling American oil companies and Canadian pipeline builders are using riskier and more environmentally detrimental practices to get at unconventional oil reserves. These oil reserves are located in the carbon rich sands in Canada, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountain West. It is estimated if extracted the oil in these [...]

Palestinian women suffer from poor living conditions within the prison walls of Israel.  The majority of prison facilities were designed to accommodate men.  International laws have been drafted to protect prisoners, yet Israel breaches the prisoners rights for justice.  Prisons such as Telmond, Damon and Al-Jalameh do not meet the minimum living conditions required by [...]

In the Peruvian province of Anta, victims of a forced sterilization program have filed a new lawsuit. The original investigator on the case, Jaime Schwartz, shelved the case after deciding that the statute of limitations had run out because the charges were those of manslaughter, and crimes towards the victim’s body and health. After this [...]

While many Americans happily and generously purchase and consume copious amounts of chocolate for special holidays such as Halloween and Valentines Day, very few realize that the chocolate they are eating is likely made by enslaved children. Few Americans had heard of this problem before reporters Sudarsan Raghavan and Sumana Chatterjee exposed the scandalous conditions [...]

The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and FDA have said that post-oil spill Gulf seafood is now safe to eat according to their tests. However, many scientists are beginning to wonder if this is true because they argue that these two administrations have not been as transparent as needed. Scientists are claiming that the [...]

A lawsuit demonstrates harsh and harmful racism in the workplace. The Studsvik Memphis Processing Facility formally known as Radiological Assistance Consulting and Engineering is being sued by the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for discrimination of African American employees. This company is a radioactive waste company and has targeted African Americans for more radiation [...]

A study conducted by the University of Michigan, along with Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found Bisphenol A (BPA) decreases sperm quality and quantity in males.  BPA is used to make plastics and epoxy resins and is found in the lining of food and beverage cans, [...]