Twenty of the U.S.’ 50 states allow some form of corporal punishment in their schools, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. A new report done by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union reveals that…

Back in the sixties when the environmental movement was a budding idea, population growth was talked about, and zero population growth—ZPG—a goal for many. Then the religious right came to the fore and rightly or wrongly ZPG came to be associated with birth control, abortions and other measures many felt were against their faith. The…

More and more would be employers are using credit checks to determine the fitness of a potential employee. Sometimes a stack of resumes can be quickly whittled after credit checks are run on applicants, discarding those with too much debt, a bankruptcy filing or the like. Those who believe in their use say credit checks…