Sometimes a statistic really does what it is meant to do and hits a reader with the reality behind its number. Twenty percent of the world’s population has no access to electricity, and 95% of those live in sub-Saharan Africa. Those of us who live in the West depend on electricity for any number of…

They’ve started something in several cities in Mexico we ought to emulate—Cannabis libraries. In Mexico City the library is in a corner on a lonely shelf labelled Biblioteca Canabica. Regardless of its size and place it contains books providing information for teachers, parents, teens and others to be better informed. It may be more true…

In California prisons, hunger strikes have began again in order to protest the fact that the promised reforms, subject of the last recent hunger strikes, have not yet happened. Prisoners are held in indefinite detention, in solitary confinement for years. For some release from solitary would mean they would have to inform authorities on who…