Social Issues

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

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BusinessWeek August 15, 2005	Social Responsibility: 'Fundamentally Subversive'? Economist Milton Friedman explains how companies are just serving their own interests when they serve the community.
Fast Company August 2005 Alan Deutschman	A New Social Calculus If you want to see how well a company is managing its own assets, you just look at the financial statements. So why shouldn't an annual report also account for how the business is managing society's collective assets -- our air, water, and other natural resources?
Reason September 2005 Julian Sanchez	All Happy Families From a civil libertarian perspective, it's clear enough why the unequal treatment of gay parents is objectionable: The human desire for family isn't exclusive to heterosexuals, and attempts to prevent gays from raising families both stigmatize them and threaten to deprive them of an important component of a full life.
Reason September 2005 Kerry Howley	Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs U.S. prescription laws make us sicker and poorer because the system that puts drugs over the counter is driven by profits and patents.
Reason September 2005 Kerry Howley	Self-Medicating in Burma The U.S. is the only country in the world that divides drugs into two rigid categories of prescription-only and over-the-counter. Most other developed nations allow for a third class of drugs to be dispensed by a pharmacist, and developing nations typically do not have prescription requirements or fail to enforce them.
Reason September 2005 Robert H. Nelson	Illegal Cities Life among the Third World's squatters. Book review of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World, by Robert neuwirth.
Reason September 2005 Ronald Bailey	Under the Spell of Malthus Biology doesn't explain why societies collapse. A book review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.
Reason September 2005 Jacob Sullum	The Search for Real Absinthe Now as then, absinthe's appeal is based largely on its notoriety. And just as pot would lose its countercultural cachet if it were sold by Philip Morris, absinthe is not the same when it is no longer prohibited.
Reason September 2005 Kerry Howley	Lifetime Commitment Pilot GPS projects are popping up in jurisdictions across the U.S., and more than 30 states are now slapping anklets on paroled sex offenders.
Reason September 2005 Julian Sanchez	Armed With a Camera Protecting protesters' rights in the U.S.: The ever-present telescreen could, ironically, become an emblem of citizen empowerment.
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