Circumcision: The Surgical AIDS Vaccine
Circumcision helps prevent HIV infection. Why would AIDS-ravaged San Francisco even think of banning this proven, safe procedure?
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Rational Argument
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Taking High-Speed Trains into the Future
For the U.S. to have world-class high-speed trains, the government will have to subsidize them. The investment would be small compared to the billions lavished on highways and airports.
Make Health Care, Not Birth Control, the Priority
Claiming that our inbred propensity to war can be prevented by aggressively reducing the birth rate is a de facto declaration of war on the world's poor.
The Real Science Gap
It's not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It's a lack of job opportunities. Americans need the reasonable hope that spending their youth preparing to do science will provide a satisfactory career.
Convincing the Public to Accept New Medical Guidelines
When it comes to new treatment guidelines for breast cancer, back pain and other maladies, it's the narrative presentation that matters.
Inside the Cyberwar for Iran’s Future
Armed with mobile phones and the Internet, trusted networks of family and friends spread the news of electoral fraud and escalating tensions in Iran, transfixing the world with photos and videos of demonstrations against the regime.
Soft Measures
You don't always need a standardized test to know a school is in trouble. Just look in the boys' john.
Breaking the Minority Attorney Drought
Why it's time to minimize use of the LSAT in law school admissions.
Keystone Cops at the Police Lab
Compromised crime laboratories are a national scandal that can't be set straight until the labs are independent of law enforcement.
May It Diminish the Court
Hyperbolic attack ads from advocacy groups have diminished the popular esteem of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past, so as the campaign to place Sonia Sotomayor fires up, a little restraint is in order.