Social Pseudoscience Social Pseudoscience
Every five years the psychologist Judith Wallerstein updates her ongoing study of 131 children whose parents were going through divorce in Marin County, California, in 1971, an...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Pill of Choice Pill of Choice
It took twelve years for the FDA to approve mifepristone--also known as RU-486--and most of that time had less to do with medicine than with the politics of abortion. Still, th...
Oct 5, 2000 / The Editors
Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson
Let's give up some applause for Dick Cheney for affirming in deed, if not words, that homosexuality is perfectly consistent with traditional family values. The decision for a Rep...
Oct 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Policing Pregnancy Policing Pregnancy
The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case that raises the stakes dramatically in the politics of fetal rights. At issue in Ferguson v. City of Charleston is whether a publ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Rachel Roth
For Some, Choice Gets Harder For Some, Choice Gets Harder
Right now, there are three votes on the Court to get rid of Roe altogether and often four or five to impose costly, chilling and burdensome regulations on the exercise of...
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Susan Estrich
Moral Law, Changing Morals Moral Law, Changing Morals
A recent decision reminds us that true equality for gay people will arrive only when the Supreme Court is not controlled by Justices whose moral view of gay people is negative.
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Chai R. Feldblum
Stem the Tide of Research? Fuhgeddaboutit Stem the Tide of Research? Fuhgeddaboutit
President Bush was not deterred by lack of expertise when it came to deciding a highly specialized scientific issue.
Aug 14, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Search and Destroy Search and Destroy
Gay-Baiting in the Military Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Doug Ireland
The Other Gay Media The Other Gay Media
AOL's buyout of Time Warner may have been this year's largest new media/old media merger, but in terms of sheer market consolidation, PlanetOut's purchase of Liberation Publicati...
Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Richard Kim
Bush’s Abortion Flip-Flop? Bush’s Abortion Flip-Flop?
Which current candidate for President reversed the abortion stand he espoused as a Congressional candidate in the seventies and adopted a position more acceptable to the mainst...
Jun 15, 2000 / David Corn