Social Issues

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

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ifeminists June 7, 2006 Carey Roberts	Is Feminism a Mental Disorder? Feminism in America has morphed from an enlightened social movement into high-octane mass hysteria, shunning reason and fact in its compulsive quest to flog the long-dead horse of patriarchy.
ifeminists June 7, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	AB 2051 Moves California in Wrong Direction on Domestic Violence The California Assembly just passed a misguided bill which puts ideology over evidence by reiterating the state's mulish definition of domestic violence as something which only women suffer.
InternetNews June 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Caught in China's Internet Blockade Internet giant Google, which has defended its decision to comply with China's censorship, has discovered that its main search engine has been blocked in most Chinese provinces.
Reason June 2006 Cathy Young	The Jihad Against Muslims Radical Islam poses problems for the West, from within and from without. But if our response turns to bigotry directed at all Muslims, it will leave little reason for hope.
Reason June 2006 Samuel R. Staley	Healthy City Living Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities, by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, poses the question: are suburbs making us sick?
Reason June 2006 Amy H. Sturgis	The Parables of Octavia Butler A science-fiction writer's rich libertarian legacy.
Reason June 2006 Tim Cavanaugh	Artifact: Nature Boy for Property Rights Here NOAA's comic strip hero Mark Trail is getting ready to deliver his trademark right hook to eminent domain abuse in the strip's mythical "Lost Forest," where local developers are trying to use the government to seize ecologically valuable land in order to build a road.
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Jena McGregor	William McDonough: Design For Living Visionary eco-architect and designer William McDonough wants a renewable world.
Reason June 2006 Shikha Dalmia	What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore The factors that made India the world's economic basket case after it obtained its independence from Britain in 1947 are precisely what have stymied Detroit's resurgence: excessive bureaucracy, destructive taxes, and bad labor laws.
PC Magazine May 31, 2006 Michael J. Miller	Will Digital Access Make the World a Better Place? Low-cost machines are necessary but not sufficient for getting the world online. We also need broadband Net access and education.
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