Social Issues

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

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National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Cohen puts imprint on beleaguered Homeland Security technology arm "Our aim is to remove seams," says Jay Cohen, undersecretary of science and technology told National Defense.
Scientific American May 2007 Claudio Angelo	Prime Directive for the Last Americans Saving Amazonia's indigenous peoples means not meeting them, insists Sydney Possuelo -- a policy of noninterference he hopes to extend, even if others hate it.
Scientific American May 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs	The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here Realizing crucial energy technologies will take more than just research and development. The overarching challenge is to make the transition at minimum cost and without economic disruption.
BusinessWeek April 23, 2007 John Carey	Climate Wars: Episode Two With the skeptics almost silenced, businesses are fighting over how to cut carbon emissions.
Reason April 2007 Ronald Bailey	Bad Blow Hurricanes and global warming is a hotly debated area with no definitive conclusions.
Reason April 2007 Ronald Bailey	Testing Your Strength The World Anti-Doping Agency is developing tests for a form of cheating that doesn't exist yet. The agency banned gene doping, the alteration of genes to enhance athletic performance.
Reason April 2007 Jacob Sullum	Data: America's Biggest Cash Crop According to a conservative think tank, agricultural price supports cost American consumers about $27 billion a year by making food more expensive. But that figure omits the government's biggest price support program: the war on drugs.
Reason April 2007 Malia Politzer	"It's Our Job to Stop That Dream" The endless, futile work of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Reason April 2007 Nick Gillespie	Designing Dissent As a guide to four decades of political posters and the graphic vocabulary employed by artists around the globe, The Design of Dissent is rarely less than captivating. But as an indicator of contemporary left-wing thought, it is more interesting still.
ifeminists April 13, 2007 David R. Usher	Lifetime TV: A Radical Feminist Lobbying Machine Lifetime TV has become a major socio-political mouthpiece for promulgation of the sexist agenda of radical feminism.
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