Wisconsin, America’s enchanted forest of cheeses, milks, and ice creams, is currently the home to one of the creamiest dairy debates in all the land about whether or not the governing powers that be should have the authority to punish dairy entrepreneurs for selling raw milk. If dairy consumers want to roll the dice…

The New York Times featured a fairly horrifying report on Saturday about the supposedly rigorous testing household chemicals have to undergo before they’re deemed safe for public consumption, revealing that the testing isn’t actually all that rigorous. Even as we dally on the Internet, our homes could be stocked full…

Sugar is delicious. It makes a bad day a little brighter; it makes food taste a little better; it makes cupcakes and pies. Sure, it may not be good for us, but why would we ever want to get rid of it? Well, we wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. At least that's what a new commentary published in the…

Well, so much for our neighbors to the north being a paragon of politeness and acceptance. There's been a disturbing change made to Canadian airport security screening rules which means that now transgender people are not allowed to board airplanes in the country. That is obviously hugely problematic and insane for…

Today, Virginia's Board of Health is voting on a bill that would essentially put the vast majority of the state's first-trimester abortion clinics out of business by regulating them like hospitals.

In the wake of a controversial decision to pull sexually themed applications from the iTunes store, Apple is toying with adding a new "explicit" category to its current offerings. While my inner feminist cheers, my inner technophile is concerned.

Last night's first-of-two part interview of Sarah Palin by Katie Couric — not exactly known for her hard-boiled interview technique — proved a couple of things to me. First, the terrible interview she did with Charlie Gibson was not a fluke. Second, there really is only one reason that McCain camp wants to…

The Swiss Animal Protection Agency has released a harrowing report that chronicles the Chinese fur trade, which produces approximately 85 percent of the world's fur products and whose animal treatment is almost completely unregulated. Although the practices employed - beating animals with a metal or wooden stick or…