It’s Payback Time It’s Payback Time
Labor-backed politicians are being asked to return the favor in union fights.
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / David Moberg
Backbeat in China Backbeat in China
A hundred days ago Wu'er Kaixi was a fugitive.... Yesterday, before an audience of 800 Americans and Chinese at Brandeis University, he showed what brought a 21-year-old Beijing N...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Special Rights for the Godly? Special Rights for the Godly?
Let's say I'm a Jehovah's Witness, and I get a job in an understaffed emergency room where, following the dictates of my conscience, I refuse to assist with blood transfusions ...
Jun 6, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Saying No to Nuclear Arms Saying No to Nuclear Arms
Calls for an end to nuclear weapons are growing--including in Washington.
Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Raffi Khatchadourian
The Mideast War Breaks Out on Campus The Mideast War Breaks Out on Campus
One of the biggest problems Palestine's supporters face is anti-Semitism.
May 30, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Singing to Power Singing to Power
British folk-rocker Billy Bragg has to be the only popular musician who could score some airtime with a song about the global justice movement. The first single from Bragg's En...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Pass ENDA Now! Pass ENDA Now!
Twenty-seven years ago, Bella Abzug introduced the first comprehensive gay civil rights bill in the history of the Congress.
May 25, 2002 / Doug Ireland
Regressive Progressive? Regressive Progressive?
As chairman of the fifty-nine-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has ...
May 9, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You
Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman