Grasping Democracy | Conclusion
The world has been made witness to a fitful exercise in mass participation and questions about genuine contestation in the recent elections for the president of Iran. If these case studies are to prove anything, it will confirm that the Iranian path to democracy is as unique and varied as is everyone else’s.
Asleep at the Switch(board)
What happens when you have a society of individuals, each with the attitude of “just doing my job” without reflecting on how it fits into any sort of a bigger picture? And when not knowing passes for justification, what does it say about that society when not knowing becomes the preferred position?
Needle Exchange and Human Dignity
Needle exchange is the process by which people, mainly injection drug users (IDUs), trade their, old or "dirty," needles for new "clean" needles. Although the practice has been used as a political football in the past few years, I imagine that most Americans -- including myself before I started working in HIV prevention -- do not really understand why needle exchanges exist or what happens at them.
A Closer Look
Ethics in Poverty?
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I haven’t been home this week, nor have I had much time to look at the television or Internet for news, but despite all this, I still haven’t been immune from the 24-hour coverage of Michael Jackson’s death. And while I intended to write this post as a plea to the mainstream media to just STHU about Jackson and get on to more important... [Read more of this review]
National HIV Testing Day
Yesterday, June 27th was National HIV Testing Day, the culmination of testing week. Cities across the country planned and executed events to test thousands of individuals for HIV, hoping to identify some of those who are unknowingly infected. It’s a valuable annual event that can increase awareness and advocate for decreasing behaviors at... [Read more of this review]
A Digital Revolution?
The events in the wake of the disputed Iranian elections have the world all a “Twitter.” Literally. News coming out of Tehran has returned the message based service from the passé of yesterday’s killer app to the forefront of the political sublime. And of course, the debate begins: what role has Twitter played in the political unrest... [Read more of this review]
Living on the Edge
I’m finally old enough to see history repeat. It’s not that I haven’t ever seen history repeat before, but that I am finally old enough to have thought deeply about events the first time I witnessed them and to remember those thoughts now as I watch them unfold anew. What’s bringing this on was an op-ed piece in The New York... [Read more of this review]
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