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How media structure intensifies polarization on abortion rights

Solution to Bad Speech is More Speech? Go ahead. Go over to your TV. Or your laptop. Turn on some news. Watch what's going on the health-care debate right now -- after more than a year of debate.

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Human responsibility toward nature and global warming

Ethical responsibility to the environment must be approached from two perspectives: first, the responsibility a man has to himself, his generation, and future generations to preserve a rich and life-sustaining biosphere; second, the responsibility a man has to the heritage of natural life and…

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Robert Kagan's analysis of transatlantic divergence on foreign policy

Author Robert Kagan borrows from the title of a pop culture book -- Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars -- to illustrate the great difference in the 21st Century between Europe and the U.S.

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US-China trade disputes and financial interdependence

The American economic slump is running into the Chinese economic slump, creating the conditions for a face-off between Beijing and the U.S. Congress, possibly leading to destabilization of the world's most important bilateral economic relationship. If a clash is to be averted, the U.S.

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Emotion, control, and political anxiety in Orwell, Huxley, and Akerlof

On the edge between a crowd and a mob, the Tea Party protests have brought a range of strong human emotions to the fore: Anger, hate, fear, righteousness have moved across the faces that have moved across our televisions and computer screens.

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Endangered World Heritage sites: The Galapagos Islands and Niokolo-Koba National Park

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization maintains a list of its own World Heritage Sites that are in particular danger at any given time.

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Corporate social responsibility toward environment and people

Business is about profitability through the exploitation of natural resources and people around the world.u Can organizations adopt a more socially responsible behavior then towards people and the environment? Discuss.

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The Treaty of Lisbon's implementation and early impact on European Union operations

Treaty of Lisbon is the culmination of many years of negotiations highlighted by heated debates, compromise, and disappointments.

~36 min read

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UK renewable energy strategy and environmental sustainability

Energy resources are one of the most important natural resource for any economy around the world. This is because the energy is an essential and integral part of every human's life.

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The Aquafina bottled water commodity chain: production, distribution, and consumer impact

The increased popularity of bottled water over the last ten or so years has led to many questions about its position in the market, as well as regarding its health beliefs and its impact on the environment, both in packaging and in trapping a once free flowing commodity in a salable form.

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