On International Women’s Day, leaders across journalism, activism, science, and sanctuary work highlight the vital role women play in challenging animal exploitation.

Proposed regulatory changes and new species decisions signal a pivotal year for wildlife policy.

A horse pulling a tourist carriage collapsed on a New York City street, renewing calls to ban the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.

When social mammals cannot create distance, stress does not evaporate. It concentrates.

In the 1840s, in Alabama, a seventeen-year-old enslaved Black girl endured approximately thirty surgical operations at the hands of physician J. Marion Sims. No anesthesia. No legal autonomy. No right to refuse.

By declining to promote meat products in city-controlled spaces, Amsterdam is asserting that public messaging carries civic weight.

We rewatched the halftime show and the closing is so powerful. Bad Bunny’s final messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” “Together, we are America.”

Language does not merely describe reality—it shapes what we are willing to see.

Black history is not a special chapter in the American story. It is the American story—woven into its economic foundations, political structures, cultural achievements, and moral contradictions.

Two press-freedom stories publishing this evening: 4:44 PM EST — The arrest of Don Lemon 5:55 PM EST — The journalist most people didn’t hear about

Across multiple regions, large-scale harm to animals prompted public outrage and judicial intervention, while new legal tools aimed at preventing abuse came into force elsewhere.

The Humane Herald does not typically publish weather coverage for its own sake. We are doing so now because this storm represents more than a routine winter event.

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Importantly, the memo does not represent a change in statute, court ruling, or constitutional interpretation. It is an internal agency directive — not a publicly enacted law.

How passive headlines erase actors—and accountability

This is not a story about spectacle. It is a story about power, fear, and the erosion of trust between federal authority and the people it claims to serve.

Dr. King was not merely a symbol of hope. He was a radical challenger of systems—of racism, of militarism, of economic exploitation. To honor him truthfully requires more than remembrance. It requires reckoning.

Opposing ICE does not mean opposing humanity, borders, or law. It means rejecting a system that has proven—again and again—that it cannot exist without violence.

This installment of Language, Examined looks at a familiar pattern in contemporary reporting: the use of softened or managerial language to describe actions that involve harm—without altering the underlying facts.

Whether motivated by health, environmental concerns, animal rights, or simple curiosity, Veganuary demonstrates that meaningful change often begins modestly—with a single choice, repeated, shared, and allowed to grow.

May the year ahead sharpen our vision rather than dull it. May it deepen our resolve rather than exhaust it. And may we continue, together, to choose a future shaped by ethics rather than expedience.

James Schultz approaches animal liberation through the lens of justice, law, and moral philosophy. Trained as a lawyer and philosopher, his work reflects a careful but uncompromising commitment to ethical consistency—one that ultimately refused to stop at the human species boundary.

Under California’s good-behavior credit system, Rosenberg served approximately two weeks in jail before being released early.

Peace, after all, is not something we inherit simply by marking a date on the calendar. It is something we practice—or fail to—every day.

Alexander Hamilton warns that separate American states will not remain peaceful neighbors — because human nature has never allowed such peace to last.

Jay cautions that even if the new confederacies began as friendly partners, they would inevitably turn into competitors. Differences in power, trade, alliances, or leadership would spark distrust. And once distrust takes hold, peace rarely survives.

When New York Assemblymember Harvey Epstein won a seat on the New York City Council, it was widely seen as a positive step forward. Epstein was one of the very few openly vegan legislators in the state — a rarity in any legislature, let alone one as large as New York’s.

A study detecting trace amounts of metals — including lead and arsenic — in several popular tampon brands ignited a wave of viral alarm. Claims that “100% of tampons contain toxic metals” spread rapidly across social media, producing shock, outrage, and understandable concern.

The December gift economy is often framed as tradition and joy, yet its consequences fall hardest on ecosystems, workers, and nonhuman species whose suffering remains invisible behind the checkout counter.

Animal issues moved from the margins into mainstream policy debates in 2025, with governments confronting industrial agriculture, wild-horse roundups, and companion-animal protections in ways that signaled growing public and political pressure.

History is clear: societies that allow their debt to spiral lose their stability, their democracy, and often their sovereignty.

John Jay argues that only a united America can avoid unnecessary wars, resolve disputes fairly, and maintain peaceful relations with the world.

John Jay argues that America’s survival depends on national unity — a principle as vital now as it was in 1787.

War is often presented as a series of strategic decisions, battles, and treaties. Left out of the narrative are the beings—human and nonhuman—whose lives and habitats are destroyed in minutes and forgotten within years.

Democrats in Congress have introduced a resolution to remove the “punishment” exception from the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, calling their proposal the “Abolition Amendment.”

Today, we honor the courage of those who fought for freedom and recommit to the ongoing work of creating it.

Lancaster County is known for its rolling fields, its cultural traditions, and its long history of agriculture. But tucked within this landscape is a different kind of farm—one that reimagines what human–animal relationships can look like when exploitation is removed from the equation.

On December 5, we confront a truth the federal government refuses to speak: the world’s rainforests are dying, and with them, the future of every species—including our own.

This article includes an open letter to @governor.ca.gov

The Humane Party and the broader abolitionist movement argue that saving cheetahs — or any species — requires more than isolated interventions. It requires dismantling the worldview that treats nonhuman life as scenery, property, or resources to be managed.