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The article discusses the challenges of finding housing that is affordable in the U.S., including in regard to the increases of home rental prices and homelessness in the U.S. The eviction of residents, including due to building owners' decisions to sell their property, is discussed. An overview of the U.S. government's affordable housing program, including in regard to racial segregation in public housing, is provided.

The article compares living in the social democracy of Norway with living in the capitalist U.S., including in regard to equality, well-being, quality of life and working hours. An overview of the relationship between the social conditions of women in Norway and the U.S, including in regard to raising children and paid parental leave for mothers and fathers in Norway, is provided.

The article focuses on journalism in the U.S. in 2015. Topics include how journalism has changed throughout U.S. history. Topics include the importance of editorial independence in journalism, the awarding of prizes in the journalism profession, and the mass media coverage of politics and popular culture in the U.S.

The article discusses the proposals of the #BlackLivesMatter movement whose mission is to put an end to a racist system. Topics covered include incidents that caused the death of unarmed African-American people in different parts of the U.S., the importance of an economic program for eliminating racism, and books that deal with racism such as "Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life" by Karen E. and Barbara J. Fields. It also discusses things to consider in building a just society.

The article discusses the human rights in history. According to the author, the concept of human rights, including natural rights, is centuries old. He notes that in the U.S. rights were invoked in ways not originally intended, such as the right to defend property and briefly discusses former U.S. president Jimmy Carter's central role in human rights in the U.S. Also discussed are U.S. human rights during the 1940s and how it has evolved into a global perspective.

This article looks at the degree of income mobility in the United States. The author claims that today in America, one's birth largely determines one's future, even though we're not supposed to be living in a class society. Based on recent data, economists like Bhashkar Mazumder of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago argue that 60% of a son's income is determined by the level of income of the father, a 40% rise since earlier in the 1900s.

The article focuses on the political and social conditions in the United States. As the U.S. House of Representatives was about to begin debating a modest campaign finance reform bill, former Enron Corp. CEO Kenneth Lay was taking the Fifth before the Senate commerce committee. The goal was to game the system, the reform bill in favor of Enron in regulatory agencies. The article also focuses on the campaign reform for elections for the post of Mayor in New York. This was the first full election under the 1998 reforms to New York City's public campaign finance law. The revised law provides four dollars of public funding for every dollar of private money for contributions up to $250, to candidates who accept spending limits.

The article focuses on the impact of technological innovation on privacy in 2015. Topics include the protection of private personal information, the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance program, and the U.S. Supreme Court judgments regarding the privacy rights of Americans. Information is provided on democracy and privacy law development in the U.S.

Hollywood films hold up a mirror to American society. It's equally true--that Hollywood films fail to reflect American society. Movies are clear windowpanes and opaque blinds, looking glasses and veils; they express and repress, elucidate and obscure, reveal and hide. Movies stubbornly tell the truth, and they constantly lie. The tabloidization of the U.S. is also about the sin of overweening pride. That's the problem of each of the characters. One is a soldier who went over to the North Koreans and doesn't know how to love his country. He's a guy who ended up on the wrong side of the cold war and has taken refuge in his poor damaged brain. Another character is a nuclear physicist who, as a result of. the horrors of his work, has reverted to being a 6-year-old.

This article presents information on the book "Free Speech in its Forgotten Years," by David M. Rabban. Free speech emerged as a major issue, historical convention has it, only with the wartime Espionage and Sedition Act prosecutions by former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, through which several thousand Americans were imprisoned for saying, writing or publishing things their judges said amounted to attempts to obstruct the war effort but that today Americans can see are simply sharp attacks and caustic criticism of government policies, the sine qua non of freedom of expression. In his absorbing revisionist history of "Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years," Professor David Rabban sets out to correct the received wisdom that in the period between Reconstruction and World War I, free speech was not much of an issue and no relevant litigation of significance took place.

This article presents information related to Congressional districts. A soft-spoken attorney and one of the U.S. Congress's left-most members, Mel Watt hails from one of the more ideologically homogeneous districts in the country; the 12th District of North Carolina. Since he was first elected in 1992, the district has been a skinny 160-mile-long crescent that starts in the mill town of Gastonia, follows the Interstate 85 corridor of small Piedmont cities, picks up poor and working-class neighborhoods in Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, and ends in the tobacco-and-technology city of Durham. But to the U.S. Supreme Court, the district is an outrage, a serpentine stretch of land that doesn't deserve to be considered a coherent Congressional district.

The article focuses on several social and economic issues in the United States. The big wind blowing on Capitol Hill last week knocked down power poles on both branches and ruptured gas lines, causing considerable seepage, but the net damage seems to be slight. Government employees, pensioners and bondholders will be able to cash their stiff green checks, defense contractors will get their billions on time and the wolf, once more, has been beaten back from the Federal door. Also intact is the absurd system of blank checks and negative balances that passes for fiscal policy in the strange world of Reaganomics. People hear a lot these days about the burdens of medical malpractice insurance on doctors. It is true that premium costs are rising astronomically, especially for obstetricians and neurosurgeons. But what about the danger to patients posed by the 5 to 15 percent of the United States' physicians who are incompetent? The supposed proliferation of malpractice suits, which the insurers cite as the chief cause of their rate hikes, has little deterrent effect on medical incompetence. Guilty doctors are not disciplined; indeed, their individual premiums don't even go up.

The article focuses on the U.S. political and social conditions. After approving $3 billion for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's budget, members of the U.S. Congress have acknowledged that nobody really has much of a notion what the company should be doing these days. Last year, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor sent the voting rights community into turmoil when she likened North Carolina's racially drawn 12th Congressional District to "political apartheid." Her majority decision in Shaw v. Reno resulted in a deluge of court challenges to "majority/minority" or "race conscious" election districts.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "Carter Bears Right," which discussed social and domestic policies adopted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter; "Small-Town Moxie," which discussed the state of journalism in the U.S.; "Harry Bridges: Then and Now," which discussed Harry Bridges, the former president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

Focuses on the attitude of U.S. citizens towards Jews and gays as of November 1981. Response of U.S. citizens to the publication of books related to gays; Increased superstitions about sex and sexes in the U.S.; Views of writer Midge Decter on homosexuality published in the journal "Commentary" as of September 1978.

Americans think of justice primarily in connection with agencies of law enforcement, for such agencies have drastic powers, even over life itself. But at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court is upholding the right to counsel in criminal proceedings of all kinds and otherwise curbing infringements of individual liberties by law-enforcement agencies, it needs to be said that many other government agencies have only slightly less drastic powers, especially over low-income people. Housing for the poor is an instructive case in the operation of administrative discretion. Faced with far more applicants than can be accommodated, housing officials have had to make choices. In the process they have come to be only incidentally concerned about the need of applicants. They have established elaborate screening techniques to rebuff the unworthy.

This article presents information on various political and social issues regarding the U.S. If the automobile industry wishes to project a public image of itself as a callous, self-centered bunch of money-grubbers, it is going about it in the right way. The General Services Administration, which serves as purchasing agent for a number of government departments, recently listed seventeen safety features that it would like' to see included in the 1967 models it will be buying in 1966. Meanwhile the theory behind the Appalachian Regional Development Program is that the construction of 3,350 miles of highways will permit tourists, industrialists and other affluent Americans to trickle into Appalachia and help it to become a woodsy suburb.

This article focuses on the racial violence in the U.S. The degree of violence varied from one county to another, partly because the county sheriffs, elected officials whose power would be hard for a Northern city-dweller to imagine, range from, spraying volunteers with obscenities and, on one occasion, a real deodorant, to somewhat rational fellows anxious to keep a trouble free records. Still one can say that by mid-July the white civil right workers had less to fear generally from the authorities.

This article focuses on the socio-economic problems confronted by the big cities of the U.S. While the U.S. President has asked big-city mayors to tell him their troubles, they have waited too long. New York City's annual budget is greater than that of the entire federal government in 1932, yet even this sum-$2.3 billion-is not enough to provide the kind of civic environment that can stem the exodus to suburbia of the amenity-starved, service-cheated middle class. Other big cities are in a similar fix. Municipal taxes are up but municipal quality is down. Responsible young fathers and mothers have only one opportunity to raise their young in health and safety and to put them in good schools.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments taking place in the United States. The great life-insurance companies have been in politics. They have given blackmail or bribes to party machines. There is an extract from a letter of one veteran Republican to another, about the succession of scandals which have broken out in one department of the Government after another; of the discoveries of lurking graft in corner after corner. The governors of twelve Southern States and the chambers of commerce of the important Southern cities have signed the call for a conference to be held at Chattanooga on November 9 and 10, to consider questions relating to quarantine and immigration.

The article discusses several socio-political issues. Recent events are likely to bring international law back to its beginnings in the dispute over Mare clausum and Mare liberum. Characteristically, the Russians may be cited on both sides of the controversy. They sowed floating and even set fixed mines many leagues from Port Arthur, China, treating the two broad gulfs as territorial waters of their leasehold on the Liaotung Peninsula, China. A growing socialistic tendency among the American masses is one of the things on which novelist H. Rider Haggard commented last week before he sailed for England. His observation merely confirms the opinion expressed by other, and perhaps better informed, students of political and social conditions in the United States.

This article focuses on the sociopolitical developments in various parts of the world. This has been a test year for organized labor of the U.S. Two years ago, wages were on an ascending scale, the movement culminating in the demands of railroad hands in all parts of the country for a larger share of the profits resulting from the great industrial boom. The extent and the cost of the victory at Liaoyang are still in doubt, no such doubt invests the sudden coming of Japan to her military majority. Indeed, the war power of Japan has already been admitted with a premature if prophetic readiness.

The article reports on various socio-political updates in the U.S. One update reports that U.S. Secretary of Treasury Leslie M. Shaw's recent announcement that he would place two and a halt millions of the Treasury surplus with the St. Louis banks, on collateral of high-grade securities double the value of the money deposited, attracts notice less from the nature of the step itself than from its possible serving as a precedent. Another update reports on an incident involving a Roman Catholic priest which has brought the great International Typographical Union before the bar of public opinion.

The article presents information on various socio-political issues from various parts of the U.S. The Kentucky Court of Appeals have reversed a decision of the Louisville Chancery Court, by which the appellant was required to accept Treasury notes in discharge contract for money. The war between the New York daily papers on the subject of the City census still rages with unwanted violence. The census just taken makes the population only a little smaller than in 1860, when. taken by that model of democratic virtue, "Captain Rynders."

Presents information on the sociopolitical and economic developments in the U.S. as of December 1972. Critique on recent court cases that have attracted national attention in the country; Implications of the victory of chancellor Willy Bradt over political candidate Rainer Candidus; Impact of environmental awareness on the food industry of the U.S.; Others.

This article focuses on the socio-political conditions of the U.S. According to all the Paris, France dispatches, the U.S. President has authorized the statement that the league of nations plan is to be an integral part of the peace treaty. If this be true, it can be regarded as a deliberate attempt to dragoon the U.S. Senate, and as such, a logical and fitting climax to the whole discreditable course of the Paris conference. It is the familiar trick of the "rider." The people of this country want the peace treaty signed and out of the way, the business interests being especially impatient of delay.

This article focuses on the socio-political conditions of the U.S. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was often spoken of as preeminently a lucky man, It is true that more than one of the high distinctions which he enjoyed, whether as a holder of public office or as a private citizen still conspicuous in the public eye, came as the fruit of what at the moment appeared to be chiefly lucky circumstance; while from more than one of the difficulties into which his temperament or his political methods repeatedly plunged him, a fortunate turn of events, as startling, often, as it was unforeseen, repeatedly afforded extrication.

The article focuses on the political and social conditions in the U.S. during 1917. The application to the U.S. Interstate Commerce Board for permission to increase rates, the argument of the railways in the current hearing is surrounded with many technical considerations. Argument for or against the actual need of higher rates in a given case ought not cavalierly to be dismissed. On the basis of the official account of the nature and procedure of the U.S. agreement with Japan regarding China, the U.S. is in a position to put aside the one serious doubt which the first brief announcement of the event must have brought to many minds.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments around the world. The drinking of fermented liquors has been a major concern. For forty years the temperance agitation has been going on in the U.S. and in England, and the end seems almost as far off as ever. Newspapers have discussed it, lecturers have made their living out of it, and philosophers have settled it. Still, there are some signs that a conclusion is one day or other to be arrived at. The labor movement which began in 1776 in the U.S. and was taken up and continued by the French revolution of 1789, was not a political movement simply, but a social one; that the political reforms which have marked its progress have been welcomed by the working classes rather because they brought with them or seemed to promise radical social changes, and above all a change in the relations of labor to capital.

Four of the defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Dave Dellinger, published books that portray and reflect strains and divisions that beset the American Left. Several events of 1969 had special meaning for the American Left. The first was the breakup of SDS, that loose coalition of old Left, New Left and hippies, which had helped energize the university campus. In its stead, on the one hand, were the well-organized youth branches of the old, rigid and authoritarian Marxist organizations; and, on the other hand, the Weathermen faction in which Americans saw the gradual emergence of an underground, terroristic organization.

This article focuses on the socio-political conditions of the U.S. U.S. President Richard Nixon, has skillfully redefined the issue of Vietnamese Conflict. But the success of the maneuver has largely depended on the consistent cooperation of the loyal opposition, which has given him a degree of support it did not accord his Democratic predecessor. The 50 per cent hike in subway and bus fares in New York City-from 20c to 30c--is an outrage which surpasses the routine abuses to which the inhabitants of great cities are subjected. The pay-and-benefits package which the transit workers received is not excessive, what with inflation and the fact that their jobs are among the most important, and the most disagreeable, in the city.

This article presents a brief information on social conditions of the U.S. Robert Lipsyte, that most perceptive sociologist who masquerades as a sports columnist for "The New York Times," says of the "Super Sixties" that "we won't know what really happened until the films are developed." That, of course, is true, but the end of a decade confronts editorial writers with art irresistible temptation to comment on the decade that has come to an end, if not to speculate on the one that lies ahead. The week between Christmas and New Year's is traditionally a time of scientific and scholarly meetings, at which in past years, chose to discuss, were safely bounded by their specialties. But times have changed. The shift could be noted in 1968, and it was accelerated in 1969. Technical papers still dominated, but at major conventions, such as the one held in Boston, Massachusetts, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the relation of science to society, and the social responsibilities of scientists, generated the most excitement.

History can judge the quality of a civilization by its rebels as well as by its official heroes. Among their present limitations one must include the current curriculum of insurrection, which is not altogether of their choosing. They seem to be as much chosen by, victimized by, as choosers of such basic issues subordination to the military-industrial order, the structural exclusion of minorities, and the fatuous ideologies of autocratic elites. These academic side-washes of a competitively bureaucratic, militarily aggressive and smugly unjust society rarely appear evident to those who never touch them. One must, as do our militant students, wade into attempts at change, or get splashed with typical U.S. righteousness, to realize how rough and bitter can be our social and political waters.

The key to understanding the oppressive class structures now developing in the U.S. society is found less in the maldistribution of the nation's property than in the maldistribution of its knowledge. Whether in the form of raw data, esoteric scientific principle, advanced industrial technique or the judgments of scientific and technical elites, knowledge has become decisive, for it is rapidly displacing wealth, reel property and individual entrepreneurial skills as the growth factor in industrial production, social organization and, most important of all, political power. This increase in the importance of technological knowledge has been embodied in the expansion of the giant institutions which have come to achieve a near monopoly over its effective use.

This article presents information on views of Americans on war. The more immediate concern of many Americans today is the requirement that those who would invoke the protection of this subsection must be "conscientiously opposed to participation in War in any form." This means, in practice, that only thorough going pacifists may qualify. One who would gladly fight for his country under some circumstances, but who will not do so when he honestly believes the war in progress is unjust, is disqualified. The U.S. law does not recognize what is frequently the case: deeply conscientious objection to a particular war.

There are things that are not part of apartheid's theoretical scheme--they are even frowned on now as negating the government's determination to give, through propaganda, a "correct" impression of the country; yet they are the soil in which human relationships must germinate. They are the Id of the Ego called Separate Development--apartheid. And that is part of special blindness: that whites are already so divorced from contact with other colors who share the country that they can see only apartheid's superego, where it is philosophy and dialectic, and is called separate freedoms.

The article presents the comments of the author on the gap between what people of the U.S. are in practice, and what with their ideal and resources they should be. The U.S. has stumbled into unprecedented abundance for the majority, and has created in the process a majority whose heart's desire is for still more abundance. According to the author, Americans are a people who have learned to live with any quality of existence as long as the quantitative balance is high and rising. Material self-interest as the highest of the priorities has become so fully absorbed in the American style that it is also unconscious, imperialistic in its reach, redefining all else to suit, or placing all else in a penumbra of qualification.

The article focuses on various social and economic issues of the U.S. A Chicago newspaper reports that the American mothers are unable to nurse their children for the necessary nine months. This is the cause of all the infant mortality. The passage by the Senate last Friday of Senator La Follette's bill for promoting safety at sea, and for improving the conditions of service of American sailors, abolishing arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion has been heralded as a long step towards making the ocean more attractive for young Americans.

This article focuses on the socio-political conditions of the U.S. The U.S. President's much-bruited visit to the U.S. House of Representatives last Tuesday and the delivery of his message in person are not to be thought of as a devised sensation for a day. It was stated the other day in a New York paper that for the past six months an investigation into the question of a minimum wage for women, under the auspices of the State Factory Investigating Commission, had been going on.

This article focuses on various socio-political developments in the U.S. The law of competition holds for the news columns. If the floods in the Ohio Valley had not monopolized the attention of the country for several days, more space would have been found in the press for the fall of Adrianople, Turkey amidst circumstances surpassing in dramatic intensity even the last days of Port Arthur. The remarkable career of economist J. Pierpont Morgan in the field of American and international finance, was closed by Morgan's death in Rome.

This article presents information on various political and social developments in the U.S. Some two thousand American marines are now running the Nicaraguan national railways. The Progressive gathering at Syracuse, New York, displayed much of that same fervor, earnestness and belief in its regenerative power which was so noticeable at the Chicago Roosevelt Convention. The spectacle was for the newspaper correspondents again a most unusual ones for it was more nearly a gathering of sociologists and social workers than of politicians.

The article presents information on various developments taking place in the U.S. The Supreme Court decision against the American Tobacco Co. was received with less intensity of interest by Congress, the public, the corporations, and the markets, than was the Standard Oil decision of May 15. Although the Imperial Conference in London is to continue its sittings until the Coronation, the largest matters to come before it have now been considered. The great aeroplane flights from Paris to Madrid and to Rome have been replete with incidents that justify nearly every adjective in the late P.T. Barnun's advertising vocabulary.

This article focuses on the socio-political issues in the U.S. The U.S. Post Office Department has come under severe accusations from the U.S. Government and New York newspapers for its poor performance. So difficult has the situation become that the New York newspapers do a large amount of the Government's work for it. They themselves route, bag, and ship their mail, carrying it to the trains and delivering it themselves, thus saving the Post Office thousands upon thousands of dollars annually. Another article focuses on the work of Don C. Seitz "The Post Office: An Obstructive Monopoly," on the postal service of the U.S.

The article presents information related to social and political issues of the U.S. The U.S. is going through an extraordinary experience in the fight against corruption. The activity displayed in the exploration of dark places and in the "rounding-up" of scores of offenders, a most wholesome thing and full of encouragement for the future. It may be said without exaggerations, that with the death last week of William Graham Sumner of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, an historic figure in economic controversy of the U.S. passes from the scene. Sumner attacked the protective tariff system at a time when protection was a fetich. He preached free trade.

There was a time, now unhappily beyond the memory of most Americans, when philosopher, iconoclast and political commentator, Martin Dooley's column was grist for hundreds of thousands of daily conversations, and high government officials sometimes deferred important policy decisions until they could read what Dooley had to say about the matter. Dooley has left behind, safely preserved between the covers of eight books and scattered prodigally through scores of old magazines and newspapers, a lifetime of philosophic utterances about the U.S.--her customs, her institutions and her people. Here then is a posthumous interview with Dooley, who half a century ago was a potent social force even though he existed only in the imagination, and who today, existing only in the memory, may have an equally vivid reality.

This article presents information, related to socio-political conditions of the U.S. In two earlier pieces in this space, authors examined some reasons why it is becoming mandatory for the U.S., to plan a new and vastly more effective role for itself in helping to advance the economic, social, and political progress of the many millions of people dwelling in various colonial, excolonial, and other underdeveloped areas of the world. Paradoxically this challenge seems to become more acute as the fear of atomic war recedes. The U.S. Department of Justice's position that the accused is not entitled to face his accuser in loyalty-security cases has been badly shaken by the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoining enforcement by the coast guard of its "screening" regulations. Washington's foreign trade practices continue to be in glaring contrast with official pronouncements.

Two years ago a group of distinguished citizens headed by a former U.S. Solicitor General re-examined the immigration and naturalization law. They reported that "it rests upon an attitude of distrust and hostility against all aliens." This is a challenging statement, if only because the attitude specified is generally characteristic not of the most advanced societies, but of the most primitive. Representative Francis E. Walter, co-author of the Walter-McGarran Act, one of the latest and most extreme legislative expressions of American xenophobia, replied to criticism of it by calling the critics "professional Jews" who were "shedding crocodile tears for no reason whatsoever."

The article presents social updates of the U.S., as of January 26, 1893. There appeared on Sunday, in an unexpected quarter, the New York newspaper "Tribune," one of those curious appears to Tammany men to "rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things," which every now and then make their appearance in the local press, and must hugely amuse "the organization." In another update, Bishop William Hobart Hare of South Dakota is heading a movement for changes in the scandalous divorce laws of that State, and thereby adding to the list of public services associated with his name. Americans call those laws scandalous, though in some respects they are more commendable than the divorce legislation of other States.

The article presents information on socio-political conditions of the U.S. The work of the Interstate Commerce Commission has increased in variety as well as in volume. It has gradually divided itself into three distinct departments instead of one. It was at first supposed that the Commission would be merely an administrative body, exercising a sort of supervisory power over the railroads in connection with the operations of the Act. The extent of the astronomical harvest gathered in on the afternoon of New Year's Day is already pretty well known, although the critical gleaning of results is as yet only just beg The daily prints have announced the remark able good fortune which fell to the lot of the eclipse observers everywhere, in that the area or belt of total obscuration of the sun was practically cloudless throughout its entire extent, from the Pacific Coast to Manitoba.

The article presents economic and social updates of the U.S., as of November 21, 1901. Many wise men, not to say wiseacres, are declaring at Washington that the U.S. Congress must not touch the tariff. No one really thinks of disturbing it, is the first thing they assert. Then they add that it would be absurd to revise the tariff; that it could not be done without much difficulty; that they will do it themselves all in good time if you will only let them alone now; and they wind up with an agonized cry for help. In another update, an analysis of the relative numbers of the White and of the Negro population of the several sections of the United States at different periods in the national history reveals some facts of interest and importance. For the purposes of such an analysis the country may be conveniently divided into seven groups of States and Territories.