Social Issues

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

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Smithsonian February 2005 Paul Raffaele	Uganda: The Horror In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed: A dispatch from the world's 'largest neglected humanitarian emergency'.
Smithsonian February 2005 Pamela Constable	Assignment Afghanistan From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation's struggle to be reborn.
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Carey Roberts	Pronouncement of Bias at the Washington Post Did the Post's Maternal Homicide series represent a well-meant but flawed presentation of a complex social issue? Or published just a few weeks before the Violence Against Women Act is set to be re-introduced in Congress, does this series reveal something more?
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Norma Jean Almodovar	Who Will Rescue Us from Those Who Wish to Rescue Us Against Our Will? Radical feminists and religious conservatives insist that no distinction be made between consenting adult commercial sex and true sexual slavery. Does anyone believe that arresting a prostitute "for her own good" is of any value whatsoever?
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Glenn Sacks	Where's the Outrage? It is noteworthy that an academic's tepid remarks on women have set off an international media storm, yet males are continually disparaged and criticized in academia with hardly a protest.
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Tony Zizza	NAMI Is Dead Wrong On Mental Health Screening It's time to relentlessly put President Bush's mental health screening monster and groups like NAMI in their place. Mandatory mental health screening is child abuse.
National Defense February 2005 Michael Peck	Strategists Learn Non-Violent Warfare Tactics A pro-democracy group has sponsored a free video game designed to teach political activists how to plan and execute strategic non-violent warfare.
HBS Working Knowledge January 24, 2005 Martha Lagace	Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model A "Robin Hood" cardiac hospital in India---which charges wealthy patients, yet equally welcomes the destitute---is cited as an exciting example of entrepreneurship in the subcontinent.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Michelle Conlin	Far From The Madding Crowd With housing prices on both coasts at nosebleed levels, more and more professional-class migrants are cashing out of their homes in New York, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles. They are moving to value-priced regions of the country, creating tiny pockets of blue America in the heart of the red states.
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab	Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste.
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