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This article argues in favor of abolishing the electoral college stating it is an unnecessary relic of the past. It argues that Americans are educated enough in the modern era to no longer need an electoral college to ensure they make the right choice when voting.

Article on a San Diego restaurant that didn't accept tipping but added a service charge of 18% instead. The switch from tipping to service charge led to improved food, thanks to happier cooks that were paid more. Business improved and the restaurant was making more money than before, when it practiced tipping.

The ACLU Capital Punishment Project (CPP) works to abolish the death penalty nationally through direct representation as well as through strategic litigation, advocacy, public education, and mentoring and training programs for capital defense teams.

Denmark after one year removed the fat tax and would be phasing out the soft drink tax in one year. The tax was damaging to local economy and didn't deliver any concrete benefits. Again one single food or bev can be held responsible. between 1999-2011 soda decreased by 32% and fat rates still rose.

In this article, the author discusses how gender discrimination in India effects not only he women themselves but the whole country. Special attention has been focused on the treatment of women in India within the past few years, and the country has had to make some changes, but the inequality between men and women within the country is still far from abolished.

Slavery in its most well-known form has been abolished, but contemporary slavery (including forced labor, domestic servitude, and sexual slavery) lives on throughout the world. The majority of people who suffer from contemporary slavery are of the poorest and most vulnerable groups within our society.

There is a clear definition of slavery. It is a bit disconcerting to see slavery characterized and "contemporary" or "traditional". This type of demarkation implies one is better than the other. It may lead a listener or reader to ascertain there is a softer less denigrating type of slavery. Does anyone really believe this? Slavery in all forms should be ended. Period.

This is a brief article that gives an overview how large the issue of sex trafficking of children is in the United States is. The United States accounts for near 50% of child pornography images sent from person to person.

I knew sex trafficking is pretty much everywhere to date, but I had no idea that the United States accounts for 50% of it. This article is so sad to read because of the reality of it. There definitely needs to be a solution to all of this, you would think that with today's technology and such that we could figure out how to stop this once and for all.

This is a topic that, despite its importance, remains unspoken, which is utterly tragic. It was shocking to read that the United States creates the majority of child pornography seeing as nothing is being done despite having so much power. Although this topic is difficult to discuss due to its ubiquitous and unsettling nature, it needs to be addressed and acted upon in order to be capable of abolishing it. As a country, the United States ought to openly discuss this topic and utilize its unity to end the exploitation of children.

This article talks about women's rights across the world. The article lists countries who rank the highest and countries who rank the lowest. The United States surprisingly falls lower than expected. No country is ranked a perfect 100% but there are countries who come close, USA not being one of them.

Such a shame from a country that widely considers itself advocates for equal rights. There are many of us that recognize this same concept, that being gender inequalities and pay gaps still exist, and advocate for that to be abolished. With the recent advances in how sensitive our society is regarding social issues, how long is this really going to take? One would think that we, as a culture of the U.S., would have already arrived to a point of true gender equality.

This is a very interesting article. I knew there is a significant pay gap within the U.S. and was honestly surprised to see it so high up. As someone else said, it certainly is a shame that we are so low yet consider the US to be one of the most progressive countries with social issues.