How To Advocate Effectively For Reducing Meat Consumption
Brian Kateman of the Reducetarian Foundation explains how animal rights activists can avoid alienating potential allies and can successfully persuade people to join the movement.
Doctors Should Put Caring for Their Patients Above Following the Law
Doctors are ethically required to provide healthcare that is consistent with modern medical standards. If the law requires them to provide worse care—such as what’s happening with restrictive abortion laws—then the law is unjust and must simply be disregarded.
- by Lily Sánchez
Why the Fraudulent 'Broken Windows' Theory of Policing Refuses to Die
'Broken windows' policing was based on the theory that neighborhood disorder led to more serious crimes. But that theory has been entirely debunked, as law professor Bernard Harcourt explains.
When Healthcare is a Bludgeon
The injustice of US healthcare is especially pronounced in prisons and jails, where care is denied, delayed, and inadequate and sometimes even constitutes another form of punishment.
- by Lily Sánchez
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