Politics & Issues

“People typically want the quick fix and since stem cell research has not produced many immediate results, the public has lost faith in the process.” Yaffa Fredrick

National security in a post-Sept. 11th world is uppermost on policy makers’ minds. However, ACLU privacy expert Jay Stanley argues that new surveillance measures do little to protect Americans in the war against terrorism…

In early December it was reported that over 1.9 million jobs lost in the U.S. this year – the highest unemployment figure in over 25 years. Desperate corporate restructuring an unprecedented global economic downturn is certain to eliminate many more millions of jobs before the economy experiences daylight. Sometimes the very first employees to go are 20 and 30 year olds.

When Barack Husein Obama was elected 44th President of the United States of America, people around the world celebrated history being made – America had elected its first black man to lead the free world. Hope, not only for a better world but for personal success against all odds resonated most especially for people who have historically been oppressed and felt marginalized by societies in which they live.

For many people in the West, 9/11 was their first introduction to Islam. Seven years later many people wonder why Islam is such a violent religion. While this is not the case, lingering questions remain to be answered – what must the Muslim community do to change this perception and what responsibilities must Western societies bear if they want Muslims to assimilate?

Little is known about Senator John McCain’s choice of Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Maybe that’s a good thing.

Basic economics teaches us that supply needs to meet demand and then everyone is happy. But energy experts like Princeton Professor Emeritus John Blackburn and even energy representatives in the current administration suggest that pretty soon most people are likely to be very unhappy as the end to proven oil reserves draws near.

In just the last year, 23 million pounds of meat had to be recalled and more recently Whole Foods recalled 1.2 million pounds of meat due to an e-coli outbreak at a Nebraska distributor. The threat of an absence of arable farmland, drought further hampers what we can eat. But there are solutions.

Iowa is no Wall Street, but today its cornfields represent multiple gambles, hedged only by the timing of when fields are planted and also the weather,” writes Voices’ reporter and Iowa native April Anderson.

Behind the statistics of soldiers who have been killed or severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan there are other soldiers whose lives have been forever altered from having seen unspeakable violence and who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.