Doyin Oyeniyi recounts discovering the story of Isis Brantley, a woman in Dallas who took on discriminatory laws to help pass ...

The rights of nature movement recognises that natural entities and ecosystems are rights holders in law – here's how it works.

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand sperm whale vocalizations. Lawyers think the discoveries may ...

In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine recently stirred up a minor tempest with an impromptu remark about the origins of individual rights. At a hearing for a nominee for a State Department post, he said “The notion ...

Last week, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine said he found it “extremely troubling” that a potential Trump nominee believed that people’s individual rights come from “their Creator,” and not from the ...

I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair, because that ‘radical and dangerous notion’ – in his words – is literally the founding principle upon which the ...

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) this week warned the American people that a Trump nominee for a State Department position was an extremist, cut from the same cloth as the Iranian mullahs and religious ...

“The notion that our rights do not come from our laws or our government should make people very, very nervous,” warned U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) during a recent confirmation hearing in the Senate ...

Why do people get sick? Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s highest-ranking public-health official, and he may chalk it up to their terrain. For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that ...

Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) disagreed on natural rights and prompted others online to join the debate on whether they are God-given or granted by the government. “The notion that rights ...