Unemployment remains high, and employers who are actually hiring find that they already have the pick of the litter. Industry veterans are applying for entry-level jobs and people with advanced degrees are vying for the jobs that high-school grads used to get.
Cambridge psychopathology professor Simon Baron-Cohen has investigated psychology and autism for decades and has developed a new brain-based theory of human cruelty.
Noisy neighbors, barking dogs, construction without permits, public safety violations — these are just some of the wide-ranging criminal offenses that fall under the Los Angeles municipal code.
Several high-profile cases in the past three years have revived and reshaped the debate over Americans’ right to bear arms. Most recently, the Supreme Court in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller struck down a law banning handguns in the nation’s capitol. But the battle has been going on for centuries. And no wonder – the language of the amendment itself, historian Adam Winkler reminds us, is “maddeningly ambiguous.” Gun control laws have been enacted and retracted, with varying degrees of success, from colonial times until now. In his new book, Winkler takes us on an historical journey of gun rights and restrictions, starting with the founding fathers, continuing through the Wild West, Prohibition, the Black Panther Movement, the Brady Bill and up to the present. In doing so, he illuminates our country’s long and fiery dance around the Second Amendment, as well as the social, racial and other factors that have divided our nation over this locked and loaded issue.
