Category: Conversation of the Week

[:en]Lately, jobseekers have been put on the spot by potential employers asking for their Facebook ID and password. The employer understandably wants to get all the information it can on the applicant. But is it legal to ask?[:]

[:en]Roughly one month ago, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking through a gated community in Florida when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, who was acting as the neighborhood’s watchman. [:]

[:en]A parenting tale of public shaming. What do you think?[:]

[:en]Certainly football is a rough sport and players get hurt, but the game is about scoring points, not collecting scalps.[:]

[:en]There is a new Brown v. Board of Education case. And like the famous one in Topeka in 1954, this new one in Chicago has race at its core.[:]

[:en]A North Carolina man, frustrated with his teenage daughter, employed some Wild West justice recently.[:]

[:en]A woman is barred from running for city council in Arizona because her English is deemed inefficient enough to run for public office. What do you think?[:]

[:en]A Stanford University professor learns a hard lesson. Did he deserve to?[:]

[:en]A father fights in defense of his son on the field[:]

[:en]A judge is supposed to be impartial. But when big donors have a vested interest in how a judge rules, can they really play it down the middle?[:]

[:en]A New York State senator has scheduled a committee hearing on student cheating. Undoubtedly, the question that will be asked is “who is to blame?”[:]