where science and ethics intersect with politics
A leader who kills a puppy and then proudly markets the story is not an anomaly — she is a symptom of a political culture that confuses cruelty with strength. The Kristi Noem scandal is not about a single dog; it is a mirror held up to America’s comfort with harm, hierarchy, and disposability.
A recent UnchainedTV emergency town hall spotlighted the growing crisis facing America’s wild horses and burros. Through the Humane Party’s ethical and abolitionist lens, this article examines how federal management practices, land-use policy, and transparency failures intersect to shape the fate of these legally protected herds—and what their struggle reveals about governance, stewardship, and the treatment of vulnerable beings.
The animal-exploitation industries and their political representatives place their hope in keeping the animal-protection community divided against itself. Such division … More
The Humane Herald 