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While Europe is no longer the colonial power it once was, and though its politics are mired in seemingly small issues, its social values provide the continent its staying power.
If you live in a city, it's probably loud; the effects of noise pollution fall disproportionately on the poor and damage our psychology as well as our physiology.
Another lengthy analysis has been done on the over prescription of psychotropic drugs in America: is the tide turning against our favorite little pills?
As genetic research advances, the risk of attributing too many qualities, such as genius, to our genes dangerously downplays individual potential for achievement.
Richard Dawkins lets go some invective against Pope Benedict XVI when asked by the Washington Post if the pontiff should be held responsible for the Church's sex abuse scandals.
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The developer of the first portable cellular telephone discovered that he wanted to be an engineer when he was just four years old. His homemade magnifying glass sparked a career […]
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The pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher used high school math in creating a drug "cocktail" to combat the worldwide epidemic.
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The mathematical physicist reflects upon his untraditional math and science education in Belize, and talks about how Einstein's theory of relativity is a "profound connection" that can inspire young people.
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The U.S. is now incarcerating on a level so out of sync with it’s own history—and with what other industrial democracies are doing—that the system is bound to change.
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Sexual victimization in prison now has come to constitute a significant portion of that in society as a whole.
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The massive rise in the prison population isn't one of the primary reasons that crime has decreased.
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We once hoped criminals would come out of prison better than they had entered. Not anymore.
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Looking carefully at the history of Texas makes us rethink the history of crime and punishment and incarceration in the country as a whole.
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Our skyrocketing incarceration rates are less related to crime than to racial politics, tough-on-crime rhetoric and for-profit prisons.
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African-Americans are imprisoned at seven times the rate of whites. Intentional discrimination is a factor in this—as are poverty, educational attainment, urban density, and white flight from urban centers.
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A conversation with the author of "Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire."
Maybe the Tea Party isn't the real threat to the Democrats after all. The greatest threat to the Democratic majorities in Congress just may be old people. Margaret Talev points […]
The FBI has opened a criminal probe of Massey Energy in connection with the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine that killed 29 miners in West Virginia last […]
Gary Becker and Richard Posner of the University of Chicago discuss the merits of a Value Added Tax as a replacement for income tax and a solution to American budget deficits.
The Los Angeles Times argues that video game violence is protected by the 1st Amendment and that parents should act as regulators, not governmet.