Social Issues

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

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IndustryWeek December 1, 2005 John Teresko	Technology Leader Of The Year -- Connecting Profits And Preservation As Chairman and CEO of General Electric Co., Jeffrey R. Immelt has embraced the cause for global and national preservation by turning it into multiple growth opportunities via innovative new products.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2005 John Teresko	The Change Advantage General Electric recognizes the inevitability of change in environmental standards and seeks out the opportunities that change offers.
ifeminists November 16, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Girls, Get Your Guns Organizations dedicated to female gun ownership are spreading from well-established organizations like Second Amendment Sisters and Women and Guns to relatively new ones like Mother's Arms, which urges mothers to protect their children with armed force if necessary.
ifeminists November 9, 2005 Wendy McElroy	PBS Film Ignites Fathers' Rights Debate The controversy is broader than one father's protest. Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories argues against what has become a cause celebre in the father's rights movement: Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS).
ifeminists November 9, 2005 Carey Roberts	Purveyors of Deceit: Why PBS Must Yank 'Breaking the Silence' The film falsely portrays one mother as a sympathetic underdog doing heroic battle against a legal system that was biased against women while undermining the fact that dads who go through a divorce often face a hellacious struggle trying to stay involved in their kids' lives.
ifeminists November 9, 2005 Mark B. Rosenthal	Breaking the Science: Ostrich Syndrome The PBS film Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories is full of bias and inaccuracy in depicting a world in which the only abusive parents are fathers.
Reason November 2005 Matt Welch	"Like Undermining Motherhood and Apple Pie" Why are California Democrats in local government embracing eminent domain abuse?
Reason November 2005 Jacob Sullum	Do Movies Cause Smoking? While claims that exposure to smoking in movies and advertising causes 86% of smoking in the U.S. are absurd, there's an unstated premise that's even more offensive: that every filmmaker should make his work conform to the dictates of the health nannies.
Reason November 2005 Kerry Howley	Artifact: A Pogrom for Tea The smashing of a Malaysian cult religion founder's two-story teapot gives the world a startling image of paranoia and intolerance -- evidence that when religious liberty is lost, so too are imagination and whimsy.
Reason November 2005 Jacob Sullum	Ice, Ice Baby Stigmatizing terms, such as `ice babies' and `meth babies,' lack scientific validity and should not be used, said a group of nearly 100 physicians, researchers, and addiction specialists in an open letter to the news media.
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