Rational Argument
Circumcision: The Surgical AIDS Vaccine
Circumcision helps prevent HIV infection. Why would AIDS-ravaged San Francisco even think of banning this proven, safe procedure?
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.
Is America's Science Education Gap Caused By Career Planning Fears?
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.
Rational Arguments -- Evidence Is Only Part of the Story
When it comes to new treatment guidelines for breast cancer, back pain and other maladies, it's the narrative presentation that matters.
Rational Arguments — 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.
Rating Schools Via the Boys' John
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.
Everyday Miracles
It's not sexy enough to make a Grey's Anatomy episode, but better primary health care would save a lot of money — and lives.
More ESOPs Could Benefit the U.S.
Why a low-cost program to educate employees about company ownership could produce huge financial benefits for the country.
Keeping Kids Out of Adult Prisons
The route to a law that will help keep kids out of adult prisons.
Patients Lacking Evidence-Based Care from Physicians
How likely is it that you will receive treatment the medical literature says is best? Flip a coin. Evidence-based health care can improve those odds, save lives and cut health care costs dramatically.
Rethinking Government's Role in the Financial System
How do we protect the markets from their own overexuberance? By signaling that future failures won't get government bailouts.
Offshore Oil Exploration: Burning Down the House to Keep Warm
Only a fool would support expanded domestic exploration — offshore or elsewhere — under the Bush administration's dysfunctional energy policies. Here's how those policies need to change for America to responsibly find the energy it needs.
Political Report Card
Authoritative research shows exactly how to fix public schools. What we need are leaders with the guts to put it into practice.
Clean the Tax Code
If we taxed corporations on the profit they report to shareholders, they'd lose the incentive to buy billion-dollar tax breaks from Congress.
The Shining City, Rebuilt
How America can retake the high moral ground and defend against terrorism.