Social Issues

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

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Smithsonian June 2005 Laura Helmuth	Editor's Note - Seeing A Ghost A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Case Could Freeze Sperm Donation A state supreme court is considering a legal appeal that could set wide-reaching precedent for both child support policy and fertility clinics in the U.S. The tangled personal circumstances of this situation constitute a legal nightmare and the sort of 'hard' case that makes bad law.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Carey Roberts	Feminist Cover-Up Means Billion-Dollar Taxpayer Shake-Down History teaches that the family is one of the strongest bulwarks against the centralization of governmental power. The proponents of VAWA seek to weaken and ultimately reconfigure the traditional family.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Brian Lovett	Fathers-4-Justice: Would Ayn Rand approve? The British group Fathers-4-Justice is intent on reaching out to the millions of fathers who each feels individually impotent before the enormity of the child custody/support problem in the U.K. and the U.S.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse	Home Alone America Why can the policy wonks and public intellectuals not see the point of Mary Eberstadt's new book, Home Alone America? Many reviewers seem determined to miss the deep truth of this book: It would be better for both children and adults if more American parents were with their kids more of the time.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Tony Zizza	The American Psychiatric Association Is Actually The American Pill Association Psychiatry has become the legalized practice of prescribing pills, rather than the purposeful practice of assisting us with problems of the heart and soul.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2005 Seth Jayson	The Price of Peace Is it good business to give in to worker demands? Sometimes. For Yum! Brands' Taco Bell, they need to realize that it does bear some responsibility for what happens down its supply chain. Businesses ought to take heed.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2005 Brian Gorman	Developing Responsibility Social policy in the developing world should matter to investors -- and corporations.
National Defense June 2005 Roxana Tiron	Biometrics Systems Help Strengthen Border Security in Persian Gulf Nation Having to deal with a daily onslaught of immigrants and visitors, the United Arab Emirates has had to resort to advanced technology to strengthen its border control and to weed out potential terrorists.
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Federal Agencies Tackle Maritime Security, Ports First The U.S. government's plan to increase its awareness of activities on the world's waterways is starting close to home, as many federal agencies turn their attention to ports. Officials from the Navy and DHS said the task of securing the maritime domain is a global problem.
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