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...self-deprecating humor is familiar to the 4,500 residents of this beautiful, barren 450,000-acre (182 hectare) reservation. Irony is almost unavoidable because the realities of life here are grim. According to school officials, nearly half of all families exist below the poverty line. Unemployment runs as high as 85%. Alcohol and drug abuse are appalling...
...century. On the contrary, the explosion of global commerce in the past several decades has underwritten prosperity not only for developed countries but for many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits...
...black kids are good at basketball, brown kids are good at math, and white kids are good at running the country. In this day and age, most of us have declared those statements unacceptable. And, in this case, they are groundless: I won’t list what stereotypes exist for young black men, but Obama, a law professor and family man, clearly does not fit the mold.In this election, racism has taken another turn: as bad, and maybe worse. In Europe, it once taught that Jews were not to be trusted. Now, in Levittown, it implies that every Muslim...
...flawed. The applicability of the death penalty is unjustifiable given the extreme uncertainty in the case of Davis, or in any case for that matter. So long as a fallible justice system remains, the death penalty will be an unjust means of punishing criminals. Three primary, practical arguments exist against a state-imposed death penalty. First, the finality of the death penalty undermines procedural considerations and the possibility of revisiting new evidence. Since the introduction of DNA testing, 200 individuals who were convicted of violent crimes have been exonerated in the U.S. Although this figure may seem small, only cases...
...Italian sailor, and that he discovered America. All in all, it seems as though we have moved away from this glorified account of Columbus’s exploits. But if we are so far removed from the towering cultural invention of Columbus the hero, why does Columbus Day still exist...