Monthly Archives: February 2013

February 25, 2013

Guestworkers, Hard To Turn Off Flow: Demographics force US to confront immigration reform, but guestworkers pose challenges

Immigration reform as proposed in the United States consists of enacting policies that provide inducements and punishments to dent significantly, even eliminate, fresh inflows of undocumented, or illegal, immigrants, who are overwhelmingly unskilled, and thus reduce their  existing stock of … Continue reading

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February 6, 2013

Futurama

The two Democratic leaders who have recently earned, for their achievements, the Nobel Prize for Peace, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, are international icons. Carter introduced human rights into American foreign policy; Gore took up the cause of global warming. … Continue reading

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February 1, 2013

How to help feminism

The horrifying tragedy that befell the young Indian woman Jyoti Singh, who was brutally gang raped in a New Delhi bus in December, and later died in a Singapore hospital, has led to spontaneous outrage. That Indian women face terrifying … Continue reading

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