Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

Old Articles: <Older 101-110 Newer>

Salon.com August 23, 2000 Barbara Kelley	Dot-com culture clash As sleepy Santa Barbara starts to look more like Silicon Valley south, residents decry "economic apartheid."
Salon.com August 23, 2000 Mark Hertsgaard	California could end clear-cutting A bill to make the practice illegal puts politicians in the hot spot between the timber industry and the increasingly tree-friendly public.
Teacher Magazine August 2000	Interview: Nuyorican Dreamer Robert Torres is a Puerto Rican immigrant raised in New York---a "Nuyorican" in street speak---who excelled at school and got out of the ghetto. His brothers and sisters are Nuyoricans who did not.
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Jessica Siegel	Web Warrior Whoever you are---if you're Jewish, Catholic, a member of a minority group--- there's a hate site out there that's against you. Some are especially manipulative and a serious danger to children and teens...
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Drew Linsay	Reefer Madness: January 1997 Sherry Hearn is perhaps the best teacher ever fired on account of a half-smoked, hand-rolled joint.
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Gregory Michie	And Justice For Some They were gang members, yes. But they were also our children. In the media, the gang label has become a sort of shorthand, a quick and easy answer for what's gone wrong in urban neighborhoods. But as I've observed my students over the years, I've come to see gangs more as effect than cause.
Mother Jones August 2000 Sue Halpern	The Color of Money Banks often turn down low-income, minority entrepreneurs for loans. But when nontraditional 'microlenders' step in, it pays off for everyone.
Salon.com May 12, 1999 Camille Paglia	Guns and penises Guns and penises: American society's problem isn't firearms -- it's the sexually dysfunctional men and women who abuse them.
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Vera Hassner Sharav & Adil E. Shamoo	Lab rats Why do people who participate in clinical studies have fewer protections than animals?
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Fred Branfman	"The drug war is a dismal failure" Bill Maher calls for legalization, and says parents should drug-test their kids if they want to. A talk with the man who defines politically incorrect.
<Older 101-110 Newer> Return to current articles.