Don Lichterman

When Treatment Becomes Confinement: Examining the Expanding Intersection Between Mental Health Care and the Criminal Legal System Read More »

Private Prisons, SAN News

When Treatment Becomes Confinement: Examining the Expanding Intersection Between Mental Health Care and the Criminal Legal System

Because the requested format is a full investigative style feature, it is longer than one response can reliably contain. I’ll provide it in sections and continue until the complete article is finishedHow America’s Approach to Forced Hospitalization Raises New Questions About Justice, Rehabilitation, and Human Rights The conversation surrounding incarceration in America has traditionally focused […]

The Fight to Free Bear Tim: Why Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Animal Sanctuaries Matter in Creating a More Sustainable Future Read More »

Rescue Network, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News

The Fight to Free Bear Tim: Why Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Animal Sanctuaries Matter in Creating a More Sustainable Future

Across the world, a growing movement is changing the way humanity views its responsibility toward animals that have suffered from captivity, neglect, and inadequate living conditions. The modern conservation conversation is no longer only about protecting endangered species in the wild. It is also about recognizing the individual lives of animals that have spent years

Baba Ganoush: The Ancient Mediterranean Eggplant Dip That Represents Sustainable, Simple, Plant Based Eating Read More »

SAN News, Recipes

Baba Ganoush: The Ancient Mediterranean Eggplant Dip That Represents Sustainable, Simple, Plant Based Eating

Across the Mediterranean, some of the most memorable foods are not built around complicated techniques, expensive ingredients, or excessive preparation. They come from a different philosophy, one centered on respecting the land, using seasonal ingredients, and transforming simple crops into dishes that have been shared for generations. Baba ganoush represents that tradition perfectly. At its

What “No Parole” Actually Means, and Why It Matters for Everyone Inside and Outside Prison Walls Read More »

Private Prisons, SAN News

What “No Parole” Actually Means, and Why It Matters for Everyone Inside and Outside Prison Walls

There is a version of the parole debate in the United States that most people have heard, and it goes like this: some states have parole, some states do not, and the states without it are the ones where people serve their full sentences and accountability is real. This binary has shaped public understanding, political

Cheap Gas, Fragile Peace, and the Cost of Standing Still: This Week in Energy and Climate Politics Read More »

Climate, SAN News

Cheap Gas, Fragile Peace, and the Cost of Standing Still: This Week in Energy and Climate Politics

The energy headlines of any given week in 2026 can feel contradictory, almost deliberately so, as though the news itself is designed to make it difficult to locate a coherent direction in the relationship between American politics, global oil markets, and the climate transition that the science has been demanding for decades. One story describes

2.54 Million Animals Suffered in British Laboratories Last Year. The Science Says It Didn’t Have to Happen. Read More »

Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News

2.54 Million Animals Suffered in British Laboratories Last Year. The Science Says It Didn’t Have to Happen.

Every twelve seconds, an animal in a British laboratory is subjected to a scientific procedure. Burned. Blinded. Force-fed chemicals. Infected with engineered disease. Restrained in chairs until the stress causes physical injury so severe that their bodies begin to fail in ways that no euphemistic procedural classification can adequately describe. Every twelve seconds, for the

They Cannot Choose to Leave. You Can Choose to Never Go. Read More »

Dolphin Outlook, SAN News, Whales

They Cannot Choose to Leave. You Can Choose to Never Go.

There is a choice being made every time someone buys a ticket to watch a dolphin perform or an orca leap through a hoop on command. It feels like entertainment. It is framed as education. But the science of who these animals are, what their lives require, and what captivity actually does to them tells

The Blueberry Banana Smoothie That Belongs in Your Daily Routine Read More »

Recipes, SAN News

The Blueberry Banana Smoothie That Belongs in Your Daily Routine

Some of the best things in a plant-forward kitchen are not elaborate. They are not the result of a long afternoon of cooking, a specialized piece of equipment, or a trip to a specialty grocery store for ingredients that most people have never heard of. Sometimes the best thing you can make is five ingredients

Good Morning from the Bears: Life at FOUR PAWS’ Sanctuaries in Bulgaria and Germany Read More »

Bears, Rescue Network, SAN News

Good Morning from the Bears: Life at FOUR PAWS’ Sanctuaries in Bulgaria and Germany

There is something clarifying about the early morning at BEAR SANCTUARY Belitsa. The Rila Mountains in southwest Bulgaria are still cool at that hour, the light coming soft through the dense forest that covers the 120,000 square meters of sanctuary terrain, and somewhere in the landscape, the bears are beginning to stir. By the time

One Mission, Lasting Impact: How FOUR PAWS Is Changing What Captive Big Cat Welfare Looks Like in Malta Read More »

Animals & Wildlife Welfare, Rescue Network, SAN News, Tigers

One Mission, Lasting Impact: How FOUR PAWS Is Changing What Captive Big Cat Welfare Looks Like in Malta

A small island nation in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea is not the most obvious place to look for a turning point in the global fight for big cat welfare. Malta is one of the smallest countries in the European Union, a densely populated archipelago covering less than 122 square miles, better known for