No politician ever claims to be be soft on crime. Quite the reverse: All politicians call for the legal system to be tough on crime. One result of this, at least in the United States, has been, over the last 30 years, to create a push for stricter and more mandatory sentencing laws. While tightening [...]

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One often hears the mantra, “keep it simple.” Yet, in our complex world, issues like globalization, global warming, and terrorism have so many variables and dynamic interrelationships that they defy human understanding. Often, desiring to make a difference, some kind of difference, business leaders and politicians, among others, often insist on simple, easily comprehensible explanations [...]

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In a detailed article posted to the blog Climate Change and Sustainability, Lester Brown makes some startling claims about the state of the world. He contends, This troubling situation is unlike any the world has faced before. The challenge is not simply to deal with a temporary rise in grain prices, as in the past, [...]

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