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December 10, 2012 Posted in Featured Forum

What’s Driving the Student Debt Bubble?

At more than one trillion dollars, student loans have grown to exceed total credit card debt.  Debt has become a standard part of the college experience.  Students take it on…  

December 5, 2012 Posted in Featured Forum

The United Nations, Recognition & International Law: Is Palestine Now a State?

The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday, by an impressive margin, to upgrade Palestine from its status as an “Observer Entity” to an “Observer State,” a change greeted by celebration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and with an unusual display of emotion at U.N. Headquarters — a Palestinian flag unfurled on the Assembly floor.

But what exactly did the Palestinians really gain at the world body? The resolution referred to the “right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to independence in their State of Palestine.”

So, is Palestine now a State?

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June 27, 2012 Posted in Featured Forum

Social Security Turns 75 – The Mother of All Big Data Projects

This year marks Social Security’s 75th anniversary. It was exactly 75 years ago this month that IBM delivered to the U.S. government the machines that were credited with making the program possible. During the Great Depression, President Franklin…  

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June 4, 2012 Posted in Human Rights Forum

A Thousand Years of Solitude

Hunter College Human Rights Program Director and Justia columnist Joanne Mariner comments on the situation endured by the more than a thousand prisoners who are held in solitary confinement, in…  

April 13, 2012 Posted in Human Rights Forum

The Trial of the Century?

With last week’s announcement that charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and his four co-defendants had been authorized, the on-again, off-again military commission proceedings in the 9/11 case have now officially…  

March 26, 2012 Posted in Human Rights Forum

The Hybrid Rules of Drone Warfare

“I don’t think there’s any question but that we are at war,” said then-Attorney-General designate Eric Holder at his confirmation hearingin January 2009, agreeing with Senator Lindsey Graham that the United…