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A Question of Black & White Harry R. Jackson
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2010
"The black-white division is the U.S.'s most intense racial divide. It is freighted with bitterness and suspicion. . . . We have allowed the worst and, arguably, smallest representations of the races to shape how we see one another."
 
America's Economic Liberty Is in Peril Walter Williams
Category: Economics Published: January 2010
Following a series of attacks on private property & free enterprise--beginning in the early 20th century and...during the New Deal, the Great Society, and again recently by the Obama Administration--the gov't outlined in the Constitution has disappeared.
 
An Iconography of Contagion Mike Sappol
Category: Mass Media Published: January 2010
"In a world increasingly saturated with the images of mass media, health campaigners were inspired to present new figures of contagion, and recycle old ones, using modernist aesthetics, graphic maniuplations, humor, dramatic lighting, etc."
 
Bridging the Divide Robert L. Millet , Gregory C.V. Johnson
Category: Religion Published: January 2010
The continuing conversation between a Mormon and an Evangelical provides another chapter in the ongoing saga of interfaith dialogues.
 
Bushwacked! Marshall Woody
Category: Literary Scene Published: January 2010
A (somewhat) true story of the Missouri-Kanasas Border War.
 
Keep on Top in a Bottom Market Howard M. Guttman
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2010
"Without aligned roles and responsibilities, it is difficult to imagine an organization being able to respond to the pressures of the marketplace in time to stave off trouble."
 
More Slices from a Smaller Pie Murray Weidenbaum
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2010
It has become quite apparent that the Obama Administration's major objective is a complete redistribution of the nation's wealth through a series of severe regulatory programs and onerous tax-and-spend initiatives.
 
Obama Believes the U.S. Is (Ho-Hum) Just Another Country John Bolton
Category: Worldview Published: January 2010
"The Administration is pursuing a policy that accurately can be described as neoisolationist--a policy characterized by an unwillingness to be assertive in the world in defense of the U.S.'s interests and those of our friends and allies."
 
Oil's Slippery Slope
Category: Focus Published: January 2010
"These images tell an epic story of mankind expressed through our discovery, exploitation, and celebration of this vital natural resource."
 
Post-White America's Tyranny of the Masses James W. Thomson
Category: Life in America Published: January 2010
"The unassailable priveleges of the white races have been thrown away, squandered, betrayed. . . . The exploited world is beginning to take its revenge on its lords."
 
The Art of Infectious Disease Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Category: Mass Media Published: January 2010
It is revealing that the posters about venereal disease from the 1940s depict the woman as the villain--the source of infection for the 'clean' man. The message portrayed was that wily females were suspect, deceptive, and dangerous. . . .
 
The Hunger Within Us Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: American Thought Published: January 2010
"The phenomenon of the New Year's Resolution, in which bad habits will be overcome suddenly and dramatically, treats all of life as a 12-step program with 11 steps in the wash."
 
The Rough Road to Dreamland Michael J. Breus
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2010
"Sleep needs and patterns might be unique to each individual, but the typical thieves of restful slumber are not."
 
To Pill or Not to Pill Diana Klebanow
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2010
"It seemed as if my femure had broken before I hit the floor [but] I had no reason to believe that the sudden collapse of my leg was related in any way to the [bisphosphonates] I had taken for osteoporosis."