The disappearing Joshua trees of Joshua Tree National Park, by Susan Grigsby Introducing Targeted Regulation of Urologists and Male Patients (TRUMP) laws, by Jon Perr Wisconsin schools are dying of a thousand little cuts, Mark E Andersen Menses, periods, and the tampon tax, by Denise Oliver Velez New medical codes are designed for the info age, by DarkSyde The police are but a reflection of America, by Egberto Willies Want to be an ally in the fight against racism? Two white teens show how it's done, by Ian Reifowitz
Introducing Targeted Regulation of Urologists and Male Patients (TRUMP) laws, by Jon Perr
Wisconsin schools are dying of a thousand little cuts, Mark E Andersen
Menses, periods, and the tampon tax, by Denise Oliver Velez
New medical codes are designed for the info age, by DarkSyde
The police are but a reflection of America, by Egberto Willies
Want to be an ally in the fight against racism? Two white teens show how it's done, by Ian Reifowitz
Looking at both federal and state government, Stephanopoulos used exit poll data to estimate how race, gender, and income level affect an individual's level of influence on policy in cases where there is significant disagreement between demographic groups. For example, he looked at where men and women, or whites and African Americans, fell on policies such as raising the minimum wage or mandating that employers provide health insurance, and compared the data to the likelihood of those policies' passage. [...] Among the demographics Stephanopoulos looked at—including racial minorities and low-income individuals—women have the least influence on policy at both the state and federal level. In cases where there's major disagreement between men and women, the chance of a policy taking effect falls the more it's supported by women, and it falls dramatically: from 80 percent to about 10 percent.
Among the demographics Stephanopoulos looked at—including racial minorities and low-income individuals—women have the least influence on policy at both the state and federal level. In cases where there's major disagreement between men and women, the chance of a policy taking effect falls the more it's supported by women, and it falls dramatically: from 80 percent to about 10 percent.
Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water. People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
The Central Intelligence Agency had explicit guidelines for “human experimentation” before, during and after its post-9/11 torture of terrorism detainees, the Guardian has learned, which raise new questions about the limits on internal oversight over the agency’s in-house and contracted medical research. Sections of a previously classified CIA document, made public by the Guardian on Monday, empower the agency’s director to “approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research”. The leeway provides the director, who has never in the agency’s history been a medical doctor, with significant influence over limitations the US government sets to preserve safe, humane and ethical procedures on people.
Sections of a previously classified CIA document, made public by the Guardian on Monday, empower the agency’s director to “approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research”. The leeway provides the director, who has never in the agency’s history been a medical doctor, with significant influence over limitations the US government sets to preserve safe, humane and ethical procedures on people.