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- A 海角大神 Science PerspectivePeace, safety, and the Olympic idealA 海角大神 Science perspective.
- A 海角大神 Science PerspectiveGems in your crownA 海角大神 Science perspective.
- Readers RespondReaders Write: How to eliminate tax breaks (and the deficit); Wake up, 99 percentLetters to the Editor for the July 30, 2012 weekly print issue: Look at effective tax rates, cap deductions, put an expiration date on tax breaks; With the US meritocracy now based on nepotism and cronyism, the '99 percent' had better wake up and demand better.
After Aurora: the role of media violenceThe connection between violent images and violent acts is an age-old debate. Recent research appears to show the connection is real. So what's to be done? There's an age-old antidote.
OpinionPass a Violence Against Women Act that protects American Indian womenEighty-six percent of the perpetrators of sexual offenses against American Indian women are non-Indian, but聽tribal police have no authority to detain them. The House must pass a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act that includes key protections for American Indian women.
Tracing America's green rootsJohn Muir and Gifford Pinchot represent the two strains of environmentalism in the United States -- and most of us think like both of them. We want nature pristine and undisturbed, but we also rely on its resources and understand the need to use care in extracting them.- A 海角大神 Science PerspectiveEncouragement from 'The Ugly Duckling'A 海角大神 Science perspective.
The Monitor's ViewFalse choice between Affordable Care Act and religious libertyA federal judge temporarily rules that the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") infringes on the religious freedom of a company's owners who oppose paying for the birth control of their workers. Such suits would disappear if Congress simply provided universal health care in noncoercive ways.
OpinionNCAA crackdown shouldn't stop at Penn State: BCS uses students like gladiatorsThe Penn State scandal isn't the only injustice to plague college football. In fact, that damaging lack of transparency is endemic. The NCAA should continue to clean house by taking control of the Bowl Championship Series, which, driven by greed, uses college players like gladiators.聽
OpinionPeople in Myanmar (Burma) must learn to 'think freedom'Whatever the military's motivation for allowing reforms聽in Burma (Myanmar), the people 鈥� led by Aung San Suu Kyi 鈥� are cautiously beginning to exercise their newfound freedom. But transitional democracies are notoriously unstable. People must learn how to think and act democratically.
The Monitor's ViewOne event to watch in 2012 Summer Olympics in London: online gamblingA global explosion of Internet gaming on sports has organizers of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London worried 鈥� to the point of tracking any unusual betting patterns on the Games. US states eager for online betting should heed these concerns.
OpinionWhy it won't be a problem if Marissa Mayer stumblesYahoo! Inc. appointing Marissa Mayer as its new CEO is being hailed as a victory for women in technology, women business leaders, and even for mothers in the workplace. But it is not a signal that parity has been reached.
OpinionA letter to Aurora, from Virginia Tech: James Holmes does not define your cityYou and I are bound together by the ties of similar tragedy and survival.聽It is easy to dwell on the horrendous events in our towns and to blame or hate. But such dwelling keeps us looking backward and can prevent our moving forward 鈥� as we must. I offer these suggestions.- A 海角大神 Science PerspectiveCause and creationA 海角大神 Science perspective.
The Monitor's ViewMoral mantle for action in Syria slips from UN to ObamaThe Obama administration has all but given up on the UN acting on Syria. It's beefing up aid to rebels taking other steps. But China and Russia can still save the UN's moral leadership by backing tougher sanctions on Assad.
OpinionWhat would 'President Romney' do about Syria?The same thing President Obama has been doing. Contrary to his condemnations of Obama's foreign policy, handling of the Syria crisis, and stance toward Bashar al-Assad, Romney would effectively have the same policy on Syria as Obama.
Five things international community must give Syria after Bashar al-Assad Transition in Syria after Bashar al-Assad will be impossible without constructive international support. From outsiders, Syria will need these five key things:
Four things Syria must do after Bashar al-Assad It鈥檚 not too early to consider the way forward for Syria after Bashar al-Assad. Examples in other countries show that a transition will be greatly aided if Syrians can do these four things:- Four things Syria must do after Bashar al-Assad It鈥檚 not too early to consider the way forward for Syria after Bashar al-Assad. Examples in other countries show that a transition will be greatly aided if Syrians can do these four things:
OpinionRomney and Obama on foreign policy: short on specificsPresident Obama and Mitt Romney delivered foreign policy speeches to the VFW this week, but neither offered great detail on how they will deal with a fractious world. With Romney on a trip to Britain, Israel, and Poland, let's hope both candidates put聽tawdry domestic policy sniping on hold.
