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Because an uninformed public—or worse, a misinformed one—leads to a less than ideal voting public and because this public has the responsibility to elect a governing body, there is a strong argument to fix the problem of unreliable media...
...hasn't done much so far. In her early months as Secretary of State, Rice would sidestep questions about Iraq by stating that the presence of 150,000 troops on the ground meant it was mostly the Pentagon's problem. But that argument has become less persuasive as the violence has continued and all military options - short of a massive increase in U.S. troops - have proven ineffective in dealing with the insurgency. By now, even Bush's dog Barney knows that extricating ourselves from Iraq will require cutting some ugly political deals with an assortment of rogues, who might...
...stepped into the debate over a government decision to increase the percentage of state jobs reserved for poor people from lower castes. The Supreme Court judges said that parliament should allow the Court to examine the issue as well, and demanded that the government provide statistical backing for its argument in support of affirmative action. Wealthy elites from lower castes - the co-called "creamy layer" who have benefited from past affirmative action - should not benefit further, the Court said...
Moreover, this argument has much broader potential consequences, because, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s studies of worldwide abortion rates, only a small fraction of abortions occur despite consistent birth control use (i.e. the pregnancies come as a complete surprise to the women involved). Thus, only these abortions cannot be prevented by morally acceptable methods such as steady contraception or, in emergency cases, implantation-preventing medication. And, as reproductive science continues to improve, both in the detection and control of fertilization, these remaining ethical concerns surrounding unwanted pregnancy may soon cease to exist altogether...
Bose’s central argument is that the world did not suddenly jump from a collection of nation-states to the era of globalization. Instead, there is an oft-overlooked intermediary period between the two extremes...