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Searching for information hidden in public

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 July 2010 |
tags: Google, government intelligence, internet searches, right to privacy
I use a Google aggregator to show me, at a glance, a screen full of the top international, national, local…


Convicted felons are citizens too

Rebecca Gould | 30 July 2010 |
tags: democracy, felon voting rights, rehabilitation
But 5.4 million Americans are currently barred from voting due to a felon conviction, with severe consequences for their rehabilitation and the democratic process.


Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

Leonard Franchi | 30 July 2010 |
tags: Dreyfus affair, Guantanamo Bay
A century later we still have much to learn about the fragility of civilized behaviour.


Teach my child that, and you’ll be sorry

Miriam Grossman | 30 July 2010 |
tags: kindergarten, Miriam Grossman, sex education
It is not what you would want to read before breakfast, but it's the sex menu they are serving up to children.


Open monogamy

Mary Rice Hasson | 30 July 2010 |
tags: homosexuality, marriage, monogamy
What gays can teach straights about marriage, according to some people.


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‘Fact-lite partisan outrage’

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 July 2010 |
tags: civility, media attacks, partisan politics
So it’s not just a heated atmosphere in the runup to the mid-term election? Rage is the new ’politics as…


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Politics of blame

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 July 2010 |
tags: blame, Obama politics, partisanship
Everyone does it, no one benefits from it, and it particularly demeans the office of the presidency. But the president…


Reasoning about life

William E. May | 28 July 2010 |
tags: culture of life, morality, philosophy
Is it possible to reach agreement on disputed issues like abortion and euthanasia? Yes, but only if you are ready to reason things out. 


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The night life of the sleepy teenager

Carolyn Moynihan | 28 July 2010 |
tags: adolescence, media, parenting, sleep
What is to be done about the teenagers? They are squandering sleeping time on electronic gadgets to the point where…


The right way to fire teachers

Thomas C. Reeves | 27 July 2010 |
tags: education, teachers, US
To the cheers of conservative critics, Washington DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has fired scores of teachers. But will that fix the system?


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Disabilities Act has an anniversary

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010 |
tags: Disabilities Act, health care rationing, human rights
And it may be short-lived.


What do the Wikileaks show?

George Friedman | 27 July 2010 |
tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, leaking, Stratfor
The shocking truth of the 92,000 documents is that they contain no shocking truths.


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Controlling speech is bad enough

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010 |
tags: citizen participation, free speech
But this is ridiculous.


The World Turned Upside Down

Francis Phillips | 27 July 2010 |
tags: Enlightenment, Israel, scientism
In an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally, contends a leading British journalist



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Musical mom has kids and career

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 July 2010 |
tags: family, work-life balance, working mothers
A reader in Canada has alerted me to a really great article -- a profile of a musical mother who…


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