College campuses, especially in Florida, are engaged in a new movement, fighting for the right of students who are here illegally for a number of years to stay in the U.S. They have been organizing formally and in some cases demonstrating. United We Dream is an example, it is a network of current and former…

President Obama in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize made a speech in part invoking the notion of just war and defending the U.S.’s fight in Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds. There’s no doubt there’s good in what he said, but still it wasn’t the speech he could have made, the speech some, including me,…

A new study says people in the US throw away 40% of their food. It is a figure that includes the waste of not only consumers but also manufacturers and distributors. How they arrived at the figure is tricky and opens questions. But it does not matter, the fact is that regardless of the percentage,…