Social Issues

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

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Reason March 2006 Julian Sanchez	The Wal-Mart Crusade In Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, documentarian Robert Greenwald flings an ample supply of feces at the world's largest retailer, in hopes that some of it will stick. Some does. But the irony is that the film shows that the faceless corporate behemoth turns out to be a potent force for community.
Reason March 2006 Jacob Sullum	Artifact: Drug Freak Show Russia's graphic anti-drug exhibition's combination of didacticism with morbid titillation harks back to old horror movies and freak shows.
Reason March 2006 Tim Cavanaugh	Middle-Class Warfare If there's any subject where Marxist theories about economic exploitation still hold sway in America, it's military recruiting. But a new study shows most recruits come from Middle America.
Reason March 2006 Kerry Howley	Tech Delusions The nonprofit group One Laptop per Child, an offshoot of MIT's Media Laboratory, unveiled a prototype of a $100 laptop meant for underprivileged kids in remote parts of the developing world. But will the computers ever make it to the intended recipients?
Scientific American February 27, 2006 Charles Q. Choi	Going to Bat Long known as vectors for rabies, bats may be the origin of some of the most deadly emerging viruses. Knowledge that bats can carry dangerous viruses could work to prevent epidemics.
Parameters Spring 2006 Eric A. Heinze	Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: Norms, Discourse, and State Practice If the idea of humanitarian intervention falls from grace because of its association with the Iraq-U.S. conflict as well as the U.S. war on terror, then a valuable instrument in the tool kit of human rights strategies may be rendered undeservedly useless.
Parameters Spring 2006 Janeen Klinger	The Social Science of Carl von Clausewitz Carl von Clausewitz's unfinished book On War is well-known as being prone to misinterpretation. This article attempts to add conceptual clarity by demonstrating that Clausewitz was formulating a social science approach before that terminology and discipline had emerged.
Parameters Spring 2006 Nader Elhefnawy	Toward a Long-Range Energy Security Policy An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Adam Aston	Here Comes Lunar Power Hydropower, the granddaddy of green energy, is making a comeback.
Smithsonian March 2006 Michael Grunwald	Everglades The nation's storied wetland is the focus of the world's largest environmental restoration project. But will that be enough?
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