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Opponents demonize it, supporters praise it as a universal remedy: for decades, myths and tales have surrounded cannabis like no other plant.

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a single shot while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennes

Remember Dr. King and the countless other civil rights warriors on this holiday by safely going out into your community, embracing and acting on a single word: service.

Editor’s note: The following guest column was written by the Rev. Ernest L. Mills, minister emeritus, Unitarian Universalists of Transylvania County.

From anti-communist witch-hunts to independence movements to wages for housework and rights for sex workers, 91-year-old Selma James has been in the struggle for a lifetime.

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

It isn’t surprising that the secular movement in America has been characterized by historical discontinuities that, in a number of respects, resemble the amnesia that held back feminism for so long.

George Hamilton recalls a trip to Bulgaria in his early days as a commentator.

California is the world’s largest driver of oil exports in the Amazon, researchers of two environmental NGOs, Stand.Earth and Amazon Watch have found. By tracking crude oil exports from four Amazonian countries, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil, into the global market, they identified that the majority of Amazonian oil comes from Ecuador and ends up […]

In his opening address at the 1945 war-crimes trials at Nuremberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice Robert Jackson accused Nazi leaders of assaulting “all those dignities and freedoms that we hold [as] natural and in­alienable rights in every human be­ing.” The horrific negation of those rights—by the agents of totalitarianism—threatened the fabric of world civili­za­tion.