The controversy over Terri Schiavo’s case elevated a family matter into a political battle that continues to frame end-of-life issues today. As the New York Times reports, “For 15 years, Terri Schiavo was effectively a slave — slave to an atrophied brain that made her a prisoner in her body, slave to bitter fighting between […]
A photojournalist who covered last year’s deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh draws connections to New York from clothing labels he found in the rubble. As reported by the New York Times, on April 24, 2013, “Ismail Ferdous photographed the deadliest disaster in garment industry history: the collapse of Rana Plaza in […]
This short documentary follows the lawyer Steven Wise’s effort to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. As the New York Times reports, “In December 2013, the lawyer Steven Wise showed the world how, with a little legal jujitsu, an animal can transition from a thing without rights to a person with […]
Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that no company that breaks the law should be considered too large or too profitable to be immune from criminal prosecution. In the years after the financial collapse of 2008, some individuals used the phrase “too big to jail” to describe the theory that certain financial institutions – even […]
Grammy Award winning singer Lorde is taking to social media to stand up for her privacy, turning the tables on an aggressive paparazzo, she says is stalking her. As ABC reports in the video, below, the 17-year-old New Zealand pop sensation is “fighting back against what she calls paparazzi harassment and stalking,” by complaining about […]