Stories by Traci Hukill
Traci Hukill is a freelance journalist based in Monterey, Calif.
Scientists growing meat in petri dishes say it's safer, healthier, more humane and less polluting. But can we get past the 'yuck' factor?
Posted on Jul 12, 2006
A small but growing movement believes that asexuality is an orientation as valid as straight or gay.
Posted on Apr 24, 2006
On the eve of Daylight Saving Time, we wonder: When did everybody get so scared of the dark?
Posted on Mar 31, 2006
An important report on the world's ecosystems says there is time to avert the worst consequences of global warming, if we start now.
Posted on Jan 25, 2006
One of the world's leading investment banks concedes there are real financial costs to ignoring the environment -- and they don't intend to get stuck paying them.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
Michael Green used his studies in Buddhism to launch an organization that's taking on toxics one by one -- and making major strides.
Posted on Dec 5, 2005
Six years ago, NATO halted a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing in which 10,000 Albanians died at the hands of Serb paramilitaries. Is the polarized region ready for independence?
Posted on Oct 21, 2005
A handful of Northern California collectives take cues from an innovative Basque cooperative in Northern Spain. But can they really make a difference?
Posted on Jul 2, 2005
The Live 8 concerts are part of a larger effort that will do some good for Africa, despite critics who have slammed Bob Geldof for staging another ego-serving aidfest.
Posted on Jun 23, 2005
Aqeela Sherrills has spent much of his adult life fostering peace between rival gangs. Now the activist wants to launch a movement of the heart.
Posted on May 21, 2005
A fledgling organization tries to ignite a movement in favor of peace -- taking its cues from an unlikely source.
Posted on May 12, 2005
The pagans had Yule, the Romans had the Saturnalia, we have Christmas. And with it, extended mall hours and an excuse to go nuts.
Posted on Dec 20, 2004
A lifelong activist, Commonweal's Charlotte Brody is making the world a safer place for mothers and babies (and also men, frogs and coral).
Posted on Dec 3, 2004
Fed up with the neoliberal policies advocated by Washington and the IMF, Latin America is turning to the left. The question now is, can it last?
Posted on Nov 24, 2004
While the Bush administration's approach to fighting AIDS might sound good, it means nothing to women in poor countries who haven't got the bargaining power to make it work.
Posted on Jul 27, 2004
Another military sex scandal erupts with reports of rape among the ranks. The response from the military seems to be the same: Act fast, do nothing.
Posted on Apr 22, 2004
A new book by William Hartung offers a portrait of an entrenched cadre with an agenda of lasting American global dominance through overwhelming military might.
Posted on Feb 4, 2004
Bush's 'healthy marriages' initiative shores up the president's conservative credentials after a year in which Texas and Massachusetts courts handed down rulings in favor of gay rights.
Posted on Jan 20, 2004
With its totally unfocused message and the fact that organizers missed a golden opportunity by not holding it three weeks earlier, was Saturday's anti-war rally in Washington, DC really a success?
Posted on Oct 27, 2003
Why a Pentagon plan to boost aid to Afghanistan is a good-bye gift.
Posted on Aug 8, 2003
The U.S. may currently dominate the globe, yet rooting for the underdog -- even when he's a horse -- is the American way.
Posted on Jul 31, 2003
For perhaps the first time in America's history, we are witnessing the spectacle of people – most of them Muslims who fear being detained or deported – migrating from the United States in search of safety.
Posted on Mar 27, 2003
When men and women in uniform speak out against the war, C-SPAN listens -- and so might mainstream America.
Posted on Mar 24, 2003
Even sub-freezing temperatures couldn't keep determined antiwar marchers off the streets of the nation's capitol this weekend.
Posted on Jan 20, 2003
US Army policy conflicts with gay-friendly culture at military's elite Defense Language Institute.
Posted on Dec 26, 2002
How the Coast Guard and INS are being massively pumped up to fit into the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted on Dec 3, 2002
