Sentences with phrase «debates over issues like»

I believe we can't possibly get to a better place, in debates over issues like global warming, until we understand why getting facts across turns out to be so difficult.

His aggressive approach politicized nearly all that it touched, leaving in its wake unnecessarily divisive national debates over issues like Common Core and sexual harassment on college campuses.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

Not exact matches

Like the debate over Austin's best BBQ joint, the issue wasn't settled during SXSW.

The head of a controversial assisted - suicide group in Switzerland says he will seek legal permission to help a Canadian woman and other healthy people like her kill themselves, raising startling new issues in the emotional debate over euthanasia.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

In this framework, issues like covenant marriage vows, home ownership, gun ownership, home birth, homeschooling, family business, family farming, hospitality, home - based healthcare and yes, even the debate over raw milk, can all be decided in the light of God's Word under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

That problem is ever so evident here in the good old US where we waste valuable time in our legislature debating sexual issues because the extremist fringe has taken over the Repugnican party and forces us to deal with non-issues that distract us from real problems like poverty, health and war.

NYT:»... the election followed a fierce, if brief, campaign in which a debate over same - sex marriage, which Mr. Peralta favors and Mr. Monserrate opposes, often overshadowed discussions on issues that are vital to many of the largely Hispanic district's working - class and immigrant residents, like affordable health care and school overcrowding.

The summer issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether charter schools should continue to expand in cities like Washington, D.C. so that a larger share of students are attending charter schools.

Hardcore Pokemaniacs may debate me on this issue, saying tweaks to the metagame like the split of attacks into physical and special categories or the recent Mega-Evolutions changed the way how people play competitively but at its core, Pokémon's battle system has not changed in over 10 years and it needs a good revision to stay current.

Still, I like the idea of having our own working list here, in part to shift this discussion away from unresolvable whipsaw debates (over issues like how fast and far sea levels will rise by 2100).

I'd like to do more pieces like «Beyond the Eternal Food Fight» and «Debate Over Climate Risks — Natural or Not,» in which I convene via e-mail a batch of experts on issues related to sustainable human advancement.

And then there's the issue of hypocrisy when, as observed earlier by Judith Curry, «employees of green advocacy groups can participate as authors of the IPCC reports (without apparent criticism), but a non-advocate scientist [like Lennart Bengtsson] can not participate in a (non-green) think tank without censure from scientist colleagues... Honest brokers are to be preferred over advocates; but the real problem arises when advocates seek to stifle scientific and policy debates.»

From the macro perspective the arguments are of a very point to the overall issue, but bloggers seem to love to debate the issue somewhat like argueing over «how many angels can fit onto the head of a pin».

We will certainly never see a long written (or otherwise) debate between an alarmist like «Dr.» Mann and a realist like Steve McIntyre over the issues, and I disrepair of ever seeing even lesser lights on each side squaring off in a real debate.

It's worthwhile trying to understand how they work, not least because some of the same tactics are now being used in debates over other issues, like Social Security.

The legality of file sharing has been hotly debated in this country for many years, and the issue boiled over again recently with the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) trading pot shots in the press with copyright luminaries like Michael Geist and Howard Knopf over both the legality of the practice and its effect on the recording industry.