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Does Affirmative Action On Campus Do More Harm Than Good?
Affirmative action, when used as a factor in college admissions, ...
Affirmative action, when used as a factor in college admissions, is meant to foster diversity and provide equal opportunities in education for underrepresented minorities. But is it achieving its stated goals and helping the population it was created...
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Is Russia A Marginal Power?
Disarming Syria. Asylum for Edward Snowden. Arming Iran. Deploying troops ...
Disarming Syria. Asylum for Edward Snowden. Arming Iran. Deploying troops to Crimea. Is Vladimir Putin flexing his muscles, while our own president fades into the background of world politics, or is it all a global game of smoke and mirrors? Russia is...
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Does The President Have Constitutional Power To Target And Kill U.S. Citizens Abroad?
With the drone strike on accused terrorist and New Mexico-born ...
With the drone strike on accused terrorist and New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, President Obama has tested the limits of the executive branch’s powers. Does the president have constitutional authority under the due process clause to...
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Was Snowden Justified?
Has Edward Snowden done the U.S. a great service? There ...
Has Edward Snowden done the U.S. a great service? There is no doubt that his release of highly classified stolen documents has sparked an important public debate, even forcing what could be a major presidential overhaul of the NSA’s surveillance...
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Is Obamacare Beyond Rescue?
With the disastrous launch of the HealthCare.gov website, critics of ...
With the disastrous launch of the HealthCare.gov website, critics of the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” were given more fuel for the fire. Is this political hot potato's inevitability once again at stake? And is the medical community...
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Reconsidering the Minimum Wage
Although widespread retail-worker strikes failed to enact a rise of ...
Although widespread retail-worker strikes failed to enact a rise of the federal minimum wage in 2013, on the state level, the tide is turning. Last week 13 states started the New Year by raised their minimum wage, and as many as 11 states, and...
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Don't Eat Anything With a Face
According to a 2009 poll, around 1% of American adults ...
According to a 2009 poll, around 1% of American adults reported eating no animal products. In 2011 that number rose to 2.5%--more than double, but still dwarfed by the 48% who reported eating meat, fish or poultry at all of their meals. In this...
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Does Spying Keep Us Safe?
The NSA collects data on billions of phone calls and ...
The NSA collects data on billions of phone calls and internet communications per day. Are these surveillance programs legal? Do they keep us safe? If not for the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, most Americans would be unaware of the vast amounts...
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Has the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Outlived Its Usefulness?
Recent mass shooting tragedies have renewed the national debate over ...
Recent mass shooting tragedies have renewed the national debate over the 2nd Amendment. Gun ownership and homicide rates are higher in the U.S. than in any other developed nation, but gun violence has decreased over the last two decades even as gun...
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Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere
If we value a free market in goods and free ...
If we value a free market in goods and free movement of capital, should we embrace the free movement of labor? Reciprocal treaties would allow citizens of the U.S. and other countries to work legally across borders. Would the elimination of barriers...
