Politics

By Matt Seuferer "Only the dead have seen the end of war." -Plato The epigraph of Black Hawk Down (2001) sits boldly on the screen, announcing its anti-war contention. Fade into almost dreamlike, slow-motion shots tinted blue to emphasize despair. Powerful images of a country in the grip of civil war and forced into famine bleed into each other: starving children with … [Read more...] about Objectivity in Television War Coverage

By Carolyn Davidson Adam Smith is often credited for prescribing unrestricted trade as an economic policy to improve societal welfare. Such ideas now dominate economic policy as over one hundred regional free trade agreements exist. However, the modern day neo-liberal manifestation of free trade would have surprised Smith; as such capitalist ideas have no ethical foundation, … [Read more...] about A Return to an Ethical Analysis of Free Trade

By Dylan A. Tredrea Following the contentious 2000 presidential election, politicians scrambled to solve the embarrassing national public problem of the outdated voting machines still in use throughout most of the country. Realizing that state and local election officials were under-managed and often under-funded, Congress quickly passed the Helping Americans Vote Act … [Read more...] about Electornic Elections: Who and What Can We Trust to Count the Votes?

By Stan Holt Sprawl, “the spread of cities [...] propelled by the impetus of depopulating large, congested, polluted, and crime-ridden industrial cities,” continues to expand across the United States (Neuman 15). Environmental responsibility and economic freedom are opposing ideas argued in an attempt to approach a practical and timely resolution to sprawl. Those in favor of … [Read more...] about Growing Cities, Shrinking Opportunities