Leader for a Nation: Legislative Responses to Executive Abuses
Congress rarely uses its power to impeach. More often, it elects to respond legislatively to executive abuses. The War Power Act, for example, came into play when Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait in the early 1990s and President Bush moved to interve...
Family Violence: Implementing Intervention Strategies
If violence has its grips on a family or a community, prevention is no longer enough; it is time to intervene. Shelters that house abused women and children and support groups combined with individual therapy can be extremely helpful as we see in t...
The Search for Intelligence: Environmental and Genetic Influences on Intelligence
Intelligence represents an interaction between genes and environment. Genes for abilities may not be totally additive, a concept known as emergenesis. Hundreds of genes may contribute a small amount of variance to a particular trait like reading dis...
Codes of Life: Molecular Geneticists Search for Specific Genes that Influence Behavior
Molecular geneticists are using DNA techniques to find the combination of genes, often hundreds in number, that indicate risk for a particular trait like reading disability. Although some critics feel such knowledge may unfairly label a child, resea...
When To Intervene
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker explains that the United States cannot be the policeman of the world, and jump into each and every situation in which there are injustices taking place. Secretary Baker makes the case for intervening when our...