Home birth seems like a fringe movement in this country sometimes, although I don’t think it should be. This great feature from the Baltimore City Paper talks about the home birth community, and provides some nice statistics and discussions from people in the medical community.

All sorts of people are profiting from war, as this article very elegantly illustrates.

Globalization is going to happen whether or not we like it, and so is capitalism, but are there ways to make these things less harmful?

Rural schools are being forced to cut corners every way they can, thanks to their crappy budgets.

Animal welfare, or at least canine welfare, just got a huge boost.

Christopher Hitchens is the latest high-profile individual to get waterboarded in the name of, uh, science. Or something.

San Francisco, sanctuary to underage undocumented individuals? Not so much, these days.