Month: August 2007

Many social reformers have long said that low academic achievement among inner-city children cannot be improved significantly without moving their families to better neighborhoods, but new reports released today that draw on a...

Really, the “Surge” is the greatest thing since sliced bread, if you like death and destruction: BAGHDAD — Four suicide bombers hit a Kurdish Yazidi community in northwest Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 175...

The old newspaper editor’s adage is that every story has a who, what, where, when, how, and why.  Different people will tell you that one of the six is more important that the others and will give you different...

The perpetual outrage that is our prison system (h/t Ampersand) … According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States—with five percent of the world’s population—houses 25...

Who do you think at Intel signed off on this ad campaign (via Afro-Netizen)? This might have been an acceptable advertisement in 1907, but in 2007? Why are there still people in ad agencies and major corporations who fail to...