Politics

There Will Be Blood: Taiwan’s Rancorous Discourse On Capital Punishment

The ghastly random killing of a four-year-old girl in Neihu, Taipei on Monday has garnered widespread attention, nationally and internationally. What has almost simultaneously been triggered is a reinvigoration of the debate over the abolition of capital punishment in Taiwan. However, it is to be noted that this is hardly a real exchange of ideas, even by the standard of the Wild West that is the Internet, but more like a campaign of persecution against social activists who advocate the abolition of death penalty....

國民黨真倒了嗎?軟禁在China體制裡的Taiwan命運

2016大選的戲劇性結果,或真讓台灣社會誤以為「國民黨倒了」、「台灣已是獨立的民主國家了」,若從國際上對「台灣」是否為獨立國家的態度進行檢視,結果肯定又是冷水一頭。台灣的多數住民都樂於支持「我們」能進一步成為主權獨立的國家───問題是「我們」是誰?Republic of China?Chinese Taipei?「我們」的本名不是Taiwan嗎?...

從葉宜津到余宛如,從人口危機到性別危機──談幼托政策

討論社會政策脈絡時,社會問題的提出是討論社會政策的第一步。解決台灣當前面對嚴重的生育率過低人口問題與性別不平等問題中,托育政策扮演重要的角色。立法院開議不到一個月,葉宜津委員的兒少津貼與余宛如委員的立院友善托育環境主張,讓幼托政策的重要性再次浮上檯面。...