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How to make taxes fairer and abolish the IRS
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 5 (UPI) -- The Internal Revenue Service is dangerous to civil liberties, irrevocably broken and corrupting national politicians.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- July Fourth, marks the United States' Independence Day. The central celebrated document, the Declaration of Independence, that rejected British rule, was the masterpiece of democratic expression written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
In Turkey, women's issues simmer in background
By Angela Montierth
ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)-- Women have often been the face of anti-government protests taking place in Turkey over the past month. Clues to gender tensions come from headlines about a rape case involving police, government condemnation of abortion and more women in the work force.
Rouhani's election
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 2 (UPI) -- Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani is likely to take nuclear discussions “back to the past.”
New York marks suffrage history in shadow of vote
By Melissa Elian
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)-- New York lawmakers just blocked Gov. Cuomo's efforts to make the state a beacon of women's equality. But they did agree to recognize the historic importance of the suffrage wagon, which started rolling 100 years ago today.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
LONDON, July 1 (UPI) -- Something very remarkable is taking place in Britain, a policy revolution in which three years of austerity are now to be balanced by the government's new announcement of a dramatic $150 billion surge in infrastructure spending.
In Gaza, teen lifestyle gets cramped by Hamas
By Eman Mohammed
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (WOMENSENEWS)-- A 14-year-old in Gaza Strip does not like the new rules that segregate her schooling from that of boys. She has plenty of company. But Hamas, which wants to impose Sharia, shows no sign of slowing down its drive to impose socially conservative regulations.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 28 (UPI) -- U.S. gross domestic product growth was revised downward for the first quarter from 2.4 to 1.8 percent because consumer spending, business investment and exports grew less than previously estimated.
By ALEXANDROS PETERSEN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- At the end of the week, Azerbaijan will decide the fate of energy security in Central and Southern Europe.
Obama's climate action plan masks hidden agenda
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan won't do much to curb global warming but it will please liberals who delight in extending government control over large segments of the economy.
Commentary: New world disorder
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- Cybersecrets purloined and made public by a U.S. defector pale next to China’s all-encompassing electronic reach.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- There are a Four New Horsemen of the Apocalypse threatening world security.
Same-sex schooling loses ground for good reasons
By Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett
(WOMENSENEWS)-- If a public school is trying to sell you--the parent--on curricula based on sex differences between boys and girls, watch out. The main criteria for choosing a school should be its overall quality measured by teaching, resources and class size.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., June 25 (UPI) -- Bill Cosby’s claim Muslims are “intentionally misunderstood” misses the point.
Brainwash Magazine scorns airbrushed images
By Anna Halkidis
(WOMENSENEWS)-- A 21-year-old magazine editor in Australia joins a movement against women's magazines that publish digitally altered images of super-thin models. Critics say these publications are literally sickening for young women vulnerable to eating disorders.
France's crisis looms
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, June 24 (UPI) -- It is starting to look as though France might be the country to watch this fall as the next phase of the European crisis unfolds.
Iran's Rohani didn't beat a single female rival
By Solmaz Sharif
(WOMENSENEWS)-- That's because he didn't face any. In this interview, Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi explains how Iranian women keep registering as presidential candidates to protest the Guardian Council's decision to disqualify women for not meeting its definition of "rejal."
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, June 19 (UPI) -- The most recent terrorist attack on June 15, which left two dead and more than 70 people wounded, proved once more that the most urgent question now is the security and safety of the 3,100 people of the Iranian opposition People's Mujahedin of Iran trapped in Camp Liberty.
'Comfort women' are old now, but still fighting
By Iris C. Gonzales
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (WOMENSENEWS)-- An offensive comment by the mayor of Osaka has brought the issue of comfort women back to the surface. A survivors' group in the Philippines keeps the women's stories alive and is planning a rally to coincide with President Aquino's State of the Nation address.
Iran's 'Show-Me' president
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., June 18 (UPI) -- The author argues that advanced weaponry should be used to convince Iran to stop develop of its nuclear weapons program.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 18 (UPI) -- Americans can expect mortgage rates to climb, selling homes to get tougher and interest rates to increase on credit cards, auto purchases and home equity loans.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, June 17 (UPI) -- Diplomacy has a language all its own but one of the most useful words is 'fudge' and it means that some creative language was used to keep the show on the road.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 17 (UPI) -- Wall Street is cooking up another crisis -- making shoddy loans and selling worthless securities to investors hungry for higher yields than certificates of deposit and government bonds offer.
Fathers should act like fathers, not Mr. Moms
By Elaine Heffner
(WOMENSENEWS)-- "Father knows best" is long gone. But in an era of shifting gender roles, the maternalization of child care doesn't make sense either. For Father's Day, let's celebrate the complementary role that both parents play, with separate but equally fine styles.
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New York Premiere of Gravity
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Sandra Bullock and George Clooney arrive on the red carpet at the New York Premiere of Gravity at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City on October 1, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo