Social Issues

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

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Reason February 2003 Jacob Sullum	Dangerous Assumption Sex offender registration: One of the main rationales for singling out sex offenders is the assumption that they are especially likely to commit new crimes. That belief, although widely held, seems to have little basis in fact.
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey	Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty.
Reason February 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Liberal Martyrdom in Iran An academic takes on the ayatollahs.
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey	The Battle for Your Brain Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind?
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman	Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared."
ifeminists January 14, 2003 Wendy McElroy	When Is It Rape? On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that if a woman rescinds consent during the sex act, the man is guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. The prosecution of rape used to be skewed against women. Now it seems to be skewed against men.
Wired February 2003 Dan Baum	This Gun For Hire They're the State Department's private army, the Pentagon's smallpox task force, the IT squad for everyone from the FBI to the SEC. Welcome to the future of national security -- brought to you by Computer Sciences Corporation, a division of Homeland Security Inc.
Wired February 2003 Joshua Davis	Come to LeBow Country Maverick tycoon Bennett LeBow wants to help the world stop smoking. By selling genetically modified tobacco. Grown by the Amish.
IDB America January 2003 Daniel Drosdoff	Just the facts, please How a database of social indicators changed the way public policies are designed and debated in Ecuador
IDB America January 2003	Indigenous Peoples: Equal Rights, Equal Respect Indigenous peoples in the Americas are beginning to receive new respect for claims to their rights, their land, and their identity.
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