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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control“
According to Koblitz, the variation in pregnancy definitions allowed ample moral and ethical wiggle room for women to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
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The Big Winners From Sweden’s For-Profit “Free” Schools Are Companies, Not Pupils
Since their inception, free schools have been subject to research, primarily concerned with two issues: student attainment and educational inequality.
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Mexico’s Cocopah People Refuse to Disappear
The Mexican constitution defines indigenous people as the descendants of the populations that inhabited the area before the state was formed and who preserve their ancestral cultural or economic …
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Build It and Bikes Will Come
If cities wish to encourage citizens to be more active and cut down on driving, they must remember that if they build it, we will come.
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Should Public Policy Promote Better Habits?
There are some conventional externality arguments for promoting walkable development - less pollution, etc.
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New Research: How Sexual Exploitation of Men and Boys Is Overlooked and Dismissed
Deep-rooted gender stereotypes can mean boys are overlooked as victims, by professionals as much as by others in their lives.
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New Email Release Shows Peter King Demanded an Investigation to Find Journalists’ Sources Like Peter King
The investigation King demanded ended up needlessly compromising the reporting of a slew of journalists.
William Rivers Pitt | Meet the New War, Same as the Old War
It has been thirteen years since the attacks of September 11, and this nation has spent every one of the 4,745 days between that morning and today in the …
Small Island Country Attempts to Hold the Hegemon to Its Promises
The Marshall Islands' lawsuits against the United States and other nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are a bold attempt to keep all of us safe from …
“Total Recall,” Water and the Values of the Group Called Value of Water Coalition
Large, well-resourced water interests formed the Value of Water Coalition to change the way we think about water, but we may not like the way they think of us …