Five Orcas, Five Slaves or Five Persons?
PETA’s lawsuit on behalf of five orcas at SeaWorld could end in a splash or a belly flop for animal rights.
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Pets, Vets and Stalking Horses
The animal rights movement may set their sights on veterinarians, warn protectors of biomedical animal research.
Should Animals Be Considered People?
In a nation where corporations are people and others want fetuses to be, a core of philosophers and attorneys are trying develop laws to declare animals “legal persons.”
Civil Rights Groups’ Surprising Net-Neutrality Bedfellows
The fight over whether the Internet should have a meter has created some unexpected alliances in the groups lobbying the FCC.
Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say?
Responding to a defense of charter schools’ record on integration, education professor and blogger James Horn argues that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire.
Walking Backward Out the Schoolhouse Door
Desegregation of public schools peaked about two decades ago, and no one at the federal level is doing much to reverse the decline.
Can Busing Desegregate Schools Legally?
Perhaps. A Minneapolis experiment offers voluntary busing of minority schoolchildren as a way to deal with segregated schools.
Domestic Spying: A Mission in Search of a Cause
Civil rights advocates fear that anti-terrorism fusion centers are overstepping their bounds.