When Rainer Hoess was 12 years old he discovered that his grandfather as the commandant of Auschwitz was a mass murderer. The gardener of his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him “black and blue” when he found out his identity. Leaving aside the reaction of the gardener, how would we react where we to…

Steven Martinez was convicted of raping, beating and kidnapping a woman. As a repeat violent offender he was sentenced to 150 years. Three years into his sentence he was stabbed by a fellow inmate and left a quadriplegic. His medical bills cost the state of California a minimum of $600,000 a year. Recently, at a…

Rising food costs and food insecurity prompted the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to commission a report on food loss. The results are nothing but striking. Each year 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted, representing about a third of the food produced for human consumption. What the report defines as losses occur…