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Conrad Murray has been found guilty. The media and others can now officially blame him for his actions in Michael Jackson’s death. We live in a system where when the jury speaks, that’s it. And yet we are increasingly aware that innocent people are in jails and on death row, people who were once found…

Being seven million strong has renewed talk about the implications of an overpopulated world. The issues are not only providing enough food and water, but also the environmental consequences of being so numerous and growing. To some there’s human rights implications as well since more people could mean more abuses. Still some fear problems with…

Mexico is reforming its constitution to recognize the right to food. The UN said that with this reform Mexico joins a select group of countries whose constitution already includes that right. As an idea, the right to food is so perfect, until one realizes that without legislation to implement it so that the right becomes…