Social Issues

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Reason June 2007 Jeff Taylor	Letters of the Law A report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine confirmed what many critics of the PATRIOT Act had long suspected: Under the law, warrantless searches and seizures have skyrocketed, especially via the FBI's national security letters.
Reason June 2007 Brian Doherty	Banned From Canada In the post-9/11 age of heightened security and improved data collection, crossing the U.S.-Canada border is no longer a cakewalk.
Reason June 2007 Ronald Bailey	Back Into the Woods More people don't necessarily mean less forestland, according to a study.
Reason June 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Soundbite An interview with Clayton Cramer on his book Armed America, which tells the story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie.
Reason June 2007 Jesse Walker	Disney Legalizes Same-Sex Unions The world we live in is increasingly willing to embrace homosexual unions, even if many Americans -- and most states -- haven't gotten there yet. But if Mickey is cool with gay marriage, the rest of the country can't be that far behind.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Richard Register	Eco-city Now! As we come ever closer to running out of oil and as we have become more aware recently of the dangers of climate change, we should move as quickly as possible toward the car-free city. Dongtan should be -- and could be -- that very paradigm.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007	Slideshow: Scenes of Shanghai Photos of the Chinese city depicting overcrowding and pollution.
Wall Street & Technology May 31, 2007 Elena Malykhina	Indentity Theft-Related Data Breaches Inceasingly Stemming From Laptop Theft More than half of identity theft-related data breaches stem from the theft or loss of a laptop or storage device. Yet most companies aren't locking down every laptop. Maybe the data isn't worth the price of securing the computer, but for most financial services companies there are no excuses.
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever	Agriculture Consuming World's Water Land-use managers and legislators need to consider how decisions such as growing more corn for biofuels or sequestering carbon might affect the ability to meet the water supply needs of Earth's expanding population.
Geotimes June 2007 Allyson K. Anderson	A Political Comment On... Fire and Ice on Capitol Hill: Climate change and its impacts are being discussed with much fervor in the district these days. Nearly every congressional office has taken up the charge.
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