Social Issues

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

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ifeminists February 9, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse	What Dads Do The secret of what dads do is hidden in plain sight, in the open secret that men and women are different. The parent of each gender contributes something unique. The two parents complement one another.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Civics Lessons In a highly polarized time, pedagogues seem increasingly wary of the "disruptive" effect of student political speech in America.
Reason February 2005 Jacob Sullum	Disappearing Docs Doctors have been fighting the "opiophobia" that leads to widespread undertreatment of pain for many years. But it was surprising to see them endorsed by the DEA, which has long insisted there is no conflict between drug control and pain control.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Songs of Innocence The Justice for All Act of 2004, signed into law in October, grants federal convicts a right to have potentially exculpatory DNA evidence considered by courts.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Negative Action The central argument is one that critics of affirmative action have long made: Students admitted to a school under looser standards are, almost by definition, less likely to be prepared to succeed once admitted, undermining whatever benefit the preference was meant to confer.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Virtual Climate Experiment's Results A worldwide global climate experiment that ran on tens of thousands of personal computers across the planet offered the most extreme scenario yet for global warming.
Reason February 2005 Matt Welch	That Old, Tired Balancing Act Did the recent U.S. presidential election kill objective campaign journalism?
Reason February 2005 Town & O'Toole	Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility."
National Gardening Calvin R. Finch	A San Antonio Success Community leaders in San Antonio have discovered that gardening is an effective tool for motivating kids to learn, to stay in school, and to have pride in themselves and in their community.
IDB America January 2005 Charo Quesada	Not Quite Equal Under the Law A new study of justice and gender equality shows that Latin America has made progress in its legislation but is lagging in practice.
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