The Ballot Initiatives will be discussed with PROS and CONS for each issue.

Before joining the National Archives, Naftali taught history at several universities, including the University of Virginia, where he also served as director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. There he oversaw a team of researchers who transcribed and annotated meetings and telephone conversations secretly recorded by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

Naftali received his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University, an M.A. in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.

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Decide for whom you will vote based on knowing each candidate's stand on issues.

Amy Bach writes how people in the criminal justice system can suffer from empathy/justice fatigue, a form of neutral adaptation when they become desensitized to injustice.

She uses real cases that demonstrate an unjust outcome as a result of wrongful arrest, charge, conviction, sentencing, incarceration and revocation of parole/probation. The most frequent unjust outcome would be a wrongful arrest on a simple misdemeanor when the arrested person is advised their least costly option is to plead guilty, pay the fine and move on.

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Not For Profit Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. From elementary education to now college and university programs, the nation has been making such a strong case for the sciences and mathematics, the humanities are going in the direction of art and music programs.

It was Thomas Jefferson who argued for a well rounded education for all with the goal of teaching students to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. Has the loss of these basic capacities jeopardized the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world?

Historian May traces the development and reception of the contraceptive pill and concludes "The feminist movement liberated women and used the pill as an important tool to gain control over women's lives."

In the early 60s the pill was heralded as a means to contain the population explosion, eradicate war and poverty worldwide and ensure stable marriages. As the decade unfolded, many credited or blamed the pill for the sexual revolution that became world wide.

What has been the impact of the pill upon the everyday lives of women and upon what has been called the birth control movement?

This lively debate will be one you will not want to miss. Find this book at your local library, book store, or online.