HIV-positive prisoners in two southern states Alabama and South Carolina face daily stigma and harassment because of their status According to an April joint report by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch titled ldquo Sentenced to Stigma rdquo inmates in HIV units are forced to wear armbands or ot

The New York Times offered some great coverage of the events and emotions surrounding the final days of St Vincent s Hospital which closed for good this past Friday Staff gathered for a Mass and barbeque and offered each other support And while many mourned the loss they also remembered the goo

UPDATED - the original inexplicably dropped the last two graphs of my post My apologies for the computer gnomes One thing I confess I enjoy about some conservative commentators is that they never ever sing out of tune You turn to their analysis and you know what awaits you the tired arguments

The environmental catastrophe in the Gulf following the blow-out and sinking of Deepwater Horizon a BP oil drilling rig off Louisiana has its first representative avian face of disaster Unnamed but tagged number 1 a nbsp northern gannet rescued close to the spot where the Deepwater Horizon impl

While some Catholics may not agree with every point in Nicholas Kristof s latest column in the New York Times it s hard to argue with his words of praise for the many nuns and priests working and living in some of the world s poorest countries These men and women dedicated to humbly serving the p

There was a rare bipartisan vote in the House the other day but in this case the bipartisanship did not do anything to advance the health of our democracy By a vote of 223-169 with neither party leadership taking an official position the House voted to order the people of Puerto Rico to enter i