Social Issues

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

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Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	No More "Snows of Kilimanjaro"? Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers have receded dramatically, making the highest point in Africa a high-profile poster child for global warming. Some scientists contend, however, that Kilimanjaro is a poor example, as its glaciers were disappearing before warming set in.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Steven Cherry	Time's Up? Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary, The 11th Hour, is a flawed but useful contribution from Hollywood on the topic of the future of Planet Earth.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Simon A. Cole	Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control?
Reason July 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Slum Justice A new system that relies heavily on voluntary arbitration by female-dominated neighborhood councils, or panchayats, is changing the tenor of conflict in Indian slums.
Reason July 2007 Nick Gillespie	Rant: The FCC's Not Our Mommy or Daddy Let parents be parents when it comes to TV violence.
Reason July 2007 Radley Balko	Illegal Medicine A new study concludes that there are many legitimate issues surrounding the provision of health care to the nonelderly foreign-born, but high taxpayer burden is not one of them.
Reason July 2007 Kerry Howley	Out of Africa The African countries that send the most workers abroad, it turns out, are educating many more doctors and nurses than they are employing.
Reason July 2007 David Weigel	Foster Follies The cost of anti-gay discrimination: A study shoes if gay couples were expelled from the foster and adoptive care systems nationwide, 9,300 to 14,000 children would be displaced. The cost of putting all of them back into the foster system: about $130 million.
Reason July 2007 Jacob Sullum	Principals of Censorship Student speech and the drug war: When the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a school's heavy-handed censorship, it seemed a majority might obligingly carve out a "drug exception" to the First Amendment.
Reason July 2007 Brian Doherty	'You Can't See Why on an fMRI' What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense.
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