Politics & Policy
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Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? A recent Center for Disease Control (CDC) report reveals states across the U.S. are not investing enough to get a firm grasp on tobacco-related illnesses. The billions of dollars collected from taxes on cigarettes and ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? For individuals with no assets and no family, the possibility of being committed to a Federal prison may be more promising than landing in a government-funded nursing home. Prison, after all, is not without certain benefits: "Prison is cheap (if not free), provides ... Read More
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Instead of differentiating people on the basis of their “religion” (as Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc.), what if we differentiated people according to their temporal orientation? We could divide people into Pasters, Presentists, and Futurians. Let’s see what happens. Pasters. These are people ... Read More
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What is the Big Idea? Voters in Egypt went to the polls today for day two of the country's presidential election. Kate Woodsome from Voice of America, Asia curated Tweets, Twitpics and social media from the ground at this historic event. See below for images and multimedia. What's the ... Read More
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What is the Big Idea? During his presidential campaign, François Hollande voiced his support for gay marriage and adoption for LGBT couples. He said he'd pursue the issue in 2013 if he won. Now that he has been inaugurated, he is being watched closely by both gay rights activists and ... Read More
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On Mother’s Day, in a sermon to his flock at the Providence Road Baptist Church in North Carolina, Pastor Charles Worley revealed his plan to rid America of its homosexuals: Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there....Do the same thing for the ... Read More
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The blind 40-year-old Chinese dissident who escaped from house arrest in April — improbably evading guards, finding his way to the U.S. embassy in Beijing and, after a diplomatic fracas, acquiring a visa to study law in the United States — landed at Newark Liberty airport on Saturday. Less than a ... Read More
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Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? The United States will sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq in order to protect oil terminals. Since the departure of U.S. Troops last December, the United States will now have a presence in Iraq. The deal is not ... Read More
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Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? The New York Times editorializes that Republicans are working diligently to make dire changes to some of the most crucial areas in women’s rights: abortion, access to healthcare for abortion services, domestic ... Read More
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Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? It is another election year and many hot-button topics such as same-sex marriage, abortion rights and gun possession are in the spotlight. Topics such as gay marriage and abortion are viewed as private morality issues ... Read More
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Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? The days of America’s rich utilizing the services of offshore bank accounts to hide additional income from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is slowly coming to an end. Many foreign banks in Europe and throughout ... Read More
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What is the Big Idea? Step into a classroom in North Korea and you will find very little that differs from a classroom in New York City - chalkboard, rows of desks, chairs, desktop computers and bulletin boards full of text and pictures. But stay a little longer and you might notice something ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? A grim photo recently taken at a Chinese high school in Hubei Province shows about 50 students connected to intravenous drips of amino acids while preparing for college entrance exams. Following the advice of the school, students agreed to accept the protein ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? In our era of big data, we celebrate the citizen scientist as someone who harnesses amateur tools to contribute to a professional field, but what about the citizen citizen? Our democracy has become too controlled by professional politicians and special interest ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Last month, Walmart was accused of bribing Mexican officials to let the company expand faster than the process of securing permits would allow. Prior to that, JP Morgan and several Hollywood film studios were implicating in paying bribes to open up the Chinese real ... Read More
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Votifi is an online platform that encourages positive, nuanced political exchange. After you sign up, the website sends you daily polls through your browser or mobile device and creates a political profile of you based on your responses. The site also breaks down basic political issues and ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? After working with Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles to develop regulations that govern autonomous vehicles, Google has been given an official driver's licence to test its cars on the roads of Nevada. The regulations stipulate that at least two humans must be ... Read More
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What is the Big Idea? Vladimir Putin is officially back for his third term as president of Russia, but this time he faces a different political climate than he did in his first two stints, writes former Belgium prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, for The New York Times. "Even he cannot prevent ... Read More
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The cover headline caught my eye, and I surprised both the elderly leafletter and myself when I took a copy of the “Watchtower” magazine on my way out of the subway station this morning. Religion and politics is one of my favorite subjects. What do the Jehovah’s Witnesses have to say? What ... Read More
