Politics
U.S. Supports Democratic Aspirations of All People in the Middle East
VOA News June 27, 2005
During her recent trip to the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the United States for 60 years has pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the region and had achieved neither. So, Washington is now taking a different course and is supporting the “democratic aspirations of all people.” More...
'Cradle of Women's Rights' May Not Be Exactly What You'd Expect
VOA News July 19, 2005
July 20th is the anniversary of a historic vote in 1848 that is often cited as the event that launched the women's-rights movement. Women and men who had gathered in the town of Seneca Falls, New York, for the nation's first women's-rights convention approved what they called a "Declaration of Sentiments." It included the radical idea that women should have the right to vote. However, it would be 72 years before women got that right nationwide.
Hurricane Aftermath Sparks Debate Over Poverty
VOA News September 26, 2005
As citizens along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast continue to struggle with the impact of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, a wider national debate has begun over the plight of the poor affected by the storms.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the nation was faced with gripping television pictures from New Orleans of thousands of people, mostly poor and African-American, struggling to evacuate, and to stay alive in their flooded city.
Those images have sparked the beginning of a renewed national debate on the plight of the poor in America's cities, and what should be done about it.
Post-9/11 Security Measures Raise Questions About Scientific Freedom
VOA News June 22, 2005
Have U.S. efforts to tighten security following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks had an effect on scientific research in the United States? A report accuses the Bush Administration of instituting policies and practices that hamper scientific and academic freedom, charges the White House denies.
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