By now we have all seen the horrific stories of dozens if not over a hundred systematically persecuted gay men in Iraq, especially in the conservative city of Sadr. Unfortunately, this is not surprising. In general, Islam has been…
While young Americans complain about the discomfort of wearing condoms and that they don’t make sex as pleasurable, some women in Africa don’t even have the opportunity to protect themselves from deadly diseases. Condom use is tied up in…
While her political naysayers are picking away at the remains of her elbow injury and the alleged reduced influence she has developed in the Obama Administration, as Alex Pasternack reports at Treehugger Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in…
It was a symbolic gesture of good will for the reduction of nuclear proliferation when Obama met with Russia’s president Dmitri Medvedev (any bets on whether or not Mrs. Clinton gave him pointers on how to pronounce that last…
The Obama Administration surely has its plate full, and the unfortunate fractured elbow Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered this morning is an eerie omen of larger problems brewing abroad. As I write this now, nearly 3 million Pakistanis are considered displaced…
Earlier this week on this blog I wrote about Euna Lee and Laura Ling, two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labor camps. Since then, no movements have been made to secure the release of the two…
The Obama Administration, already under fire by gay rights groups and their allies for marriage equality, notched another major setback for the movement today in arguing against a federal case challening the Defense of Marriage Act passed in 1996. The…
Hillary Clinton weighed in on our top story today on ABC’s This Week yesterday drawing a line between the politics of international issues and the “humanitarian” issue involving the American journalists sentenced earlier to twelve years in labor camps. She…
Two American journalists in North Korea were sentened to twelve years in a labor camps this morning in Pyongyang. Outrage over the sentences has boiled over and the U.S. State Department and the White House are pursuing all “available avenues”…
One of the student leaders of the pro-democracy movement in 1989 is now seeking to surrender to Chinese authorities this week on the 20th anniversary of the crackdown. Mr. Wu wants to return so that he can see his family …
