As the National Rifle Association — the most influential gun rights advocacy group in the U.S. — comes under pressure from victim groups and gun control advocates, internet companies like Amazon, Apple, and YouTube are finding themselves uncomfortably close to the center of the controversy. These are among the companies that currently stream the NRA’s official…

The United States is woefully behind the rest of the industrialized world when it comes to early childhood education (ECE). A 2016 study found that out of 36 countries, the U.S. ranked 29th in enrollment rates for its 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. In 2014, only 42% of 3-year-olds and 68% of 4-year-olds were enrolled in ECE…

Craig Benzine speaking at VidCon 2012 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Wikicommons/ Gage Skidmore. Some rights reserved.30 years ago, it was easy to silence ideas. Not reporting on something could guarantee its obscurity. The internet changed all that by allowing almost anyone to start up a blog, vlog, or website and do…

THE GOOD NEWS: One woman is reducing stigma in Nigeria by delivering self-testing HIV kits straight to the homes of patients.   In Nigeria, deeply embedded cultural fears and stigmas have largely prevented health advocates from educating the population on sexual health concerns. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS and the limited number of people getting tested only…

Six Nobel peace laureates meet in Belfast in 2013. Credit: John Murphy Aurora PA.“We want all the barriers down,” declared Nobel peace prize winner Mairead Maguire yesterday, opening the 10th anniversary of the Nobel Women’s Initiative gathering in Dusseldorf, Germany. She was, incidentally, joking, referring to the fact that – due to variations in height…

Food waste in the United States is a major ecological and moral problem. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans in 2015 wasted 31% — or 133 billion pounds — of their overall food supply. This is a tremendous waste of natural resources, contributes to climate change, and squanders food that could be saved for the…

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) reacts during an event to deliver the formal request for a National Constituent Assembly to modify the country's Constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 3, 2017. Boris Vergara/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images There is evidence that drugs produced in Colombia continue to pass freely through Venezuela’s border. Following the demobilization of the Revolutionary…

Mallory Weggemann has been a competitive swimmer since she was 7 years old. In 2008, she went to the hospital to receive her third and final epidural injection that was supposed to help with debilitating post-shingles back pain. Instead, 18-year-old Weggemann was left a paraplegic with complete loss of movement from her abdomen down. Determined…

National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly await the arrival of President Donald J. Trump, August 2017. CNP/SIPA USA/Press Association. All rights reserved. It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, they won when so many lost. James Comey…

Csorba Zoltán, a Hungarian civil servant, has recently lost his job because of his political views (own photo).It seems that in Hungary, the official propaganda regarding the struggle between the Central European University (CEU) and the Orban government, has started to have serious repercussions not only on people connected to the University, but other progressive…