Europe has been shaken by a social and political crisis. A collection of nations striving to create a community has been forced to reevaluate their relationships with each other. Today, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain all faced economic insolvency. Despite the establishment of a large bailout fund to heal the Euro crisis, the economic … Read more
Political characterizations are always relative. It is often said that if David Cameron, or another conservative European leader, were plucked off Downing Street and dropped on Pennsylvania Avenue, he would undoubtedly find his Conservative Party positions on healthcare, postsecondary education, and fiscal stimulus somewhere in line with the leftmost wing of the American Democrats. But … Read more
With a US unemployment of 9%, many western observers see China’s 10% GDP growth and find themselves looking to the East with envy. Many are asking, what are we doing wrong and what is China doing right? The answer is complicated. There are and will continue to be comparative advantages for the US and China. … Read more
Brazil, Sierra Leone, Kyrgyzstan, and Costa Rica do not have much in common beyond their female presidents. In the last decade, female representation in parliament and executive cabinet positions has almost doubled. Yet advances around the world are extremely varied. Rwanda, where quotas guarantee women 30 percent of seats in parliament, tops the charts with … Read more
Educating females is a profitable investment that generates high economic returns. An educated woman will be three times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS than her uneducated sister, and her income will be 25% higher. Moreover, Rebecca Winthrop, Director of the Center for Universal Education, told the HPR, “Every 1 percent increase in women’s education generates … Read more
Fifty-three years after Betty Friedan wrote about “the problem that has no name,” the name has a problem. In the United States today, “Feminism” is feminism’s greatest enemy. The movement achieved its original goals but changed its mission in order to persist. In the process, feminism may have lost its path. The Paranoid Schizophrenic At … Read more
The Republican-led 112th Congress began the legislative session with what many liberals characterized as a “war against women” which ranged from an attempt to redefine rape as “forcible rape” to a push to eliminate all federal funding for family planning services. A renewed effort to limit access to reproductive health services has fired up legislators, … Read more
In Griswold v. Connecticut, Justice Hugo Black began his opinion with “I agree with my Brother Stewart’s dissenting opinion.” Throughout the opinion, Black used the term “brother” over 15 times when referring to his colleagues. This practice was completely normal until Sandra Day O’Connor joined the Court. Josh Blackman, Co-Founder of the Harlan Institute, told … Read more
The International Labor Organization estimates that 12.3 million people have been trafficked around the world. Forty-three percent of these victims are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation, of which 98 percent are women and girls. Thirty-two percent of victims are used for forced economic exploitation, of which 56 percent are women and girls. Women are … Read more
In The Social Revolution, Karl Katusky warned that “there are few conceptions over which there has been so much contention as that of revolution.” This argument does not only exist within the body of scholars attempting to describe and define the phenomenon of revolution, but it is also shared with the revolutionaries themselves, as they … Read more