Social Issues

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

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Reason July 2002 Sara Rimensnyder	Child Labor Lost The most succinct critic of overly restrictive child labor laws in the U.S. turns out to be a kid himself.
Reason July 2002 Jeremy Lott	Disappearing Divide Thanks to falling computer and online access prices and diminishing skill requirements, the digital divide has been shrinking without government intervention.
Reason July 2002 Sara Rimensnyder	Higher Learning Campus drug wars: drug convictions are grounds for denial of federal financial aid. Not if activist students have their way. The law in question -- an amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1998 that took effect in July 2000 -- is under grassroots attack on campuses across America.
Reason July 2002 Jacob Sullum	Less Than Zero The real cost of smoking.
Reason July 2002 Cathy Young	License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment.
Salon.com June 29, 2002 Ian Rothkerch	"What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has" David Simon, creator of the searing new HBO series "The Wire," on why even the best cop shows are phony and our anti-drug mania amounts to a permanent war against the underclass.
CIO July 1, 2002 Todd Datz	Busting Crime by Decoding Phone Bills Gabby criminals beware: there's a new technology out there to help the good guys catch you. PatternTracer TCA, telephone call analysis software from Springfield, Va.-based i2, helps law enforcement agencies decipher complex relationships buried in billing records.
Salon.com June 28, 2002 Janelle Brown	When the drug war invades the chess club ACLU lawyer Graham Boyd discusses the impact of Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular school activities.
Salon.com June 27, 2002 Robert Capps	Crime without punishment Investigators knew employees for U.S. military contractors in Bosnia bought women as sex slaves. But because of legal loopholes and bureaucratic confusion, no one was prosecuted.
Salon.com June 18, 2002 Jeffrey Benner	Every dial you take The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
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