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Original Intent for All

Although conservatives generally embrace the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, while liberals see it as a living document, one legal scholar points out that a liberal read of the document constrains both left and right, while an interpretive one lends itself to exploitation by such political factions.

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Biofueled Food Shortages?

Despite experts’ efforts to find conventional and affordable ways to raise livestock, to grow healthy vegetation, while protecting the environment still remains a major problem in the 21st century.

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Soldier in the Rain

Michael Chertoff admits that three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) he heads still falls short from protecting the American national structures from natural disasters.

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Tuition Economics

There is no such thing as “free quality education” because the financial burden of that education must either be placed on the taxpayer or fulfilled through private sources such as tuition dollars.

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U.S. Tanzania AIDS Deal

On September 2, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced a grant award to BIPAI of $22.5 million over five years to combat AIDS in Africa.

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Marching On Chavez

An average Venezuelan student led 200,000 people on marches against Hugo Chávez’s constitutional reforms. For his efforts, Yon Goicoechea is this year’s recipient of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.

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Churchill’s Ministry of Peace

Some anti-war outlets still seem all-too-willing to court the company of Ward Churchill, the controversial professor known for calling the victims of September 11, 2001 “little Eichmanns.”

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Getting It Right

The Dean of Faculty at the Poynter Institute argues that, while it is not necessarily a bad thing to cover racial issues, the media has been doing so improperly this election season.

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