Social Justice

Driving Planned Parenthood Driving Planned Parenthood

Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's new president, leads an organization searching for new national strategies, as a crucial vote in South Dakota tests its grassroots clout.

Nov 2, 2006 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner

Reproductive Rights on the Line in South Dakota Reproductive Rights on the Line in South Dakota

An initiative that seeks to overturn South Dakota's draconian ban on abortion will have implications in states across the country.

Oct 22, 2006 / Kate Michelman

Soldiers of Conscience Soldiers of Conscience

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world w...

Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Staughton Lynd

Downsized but Not Out Downsized but Not Out

United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.

Oct 19, 2006 / Barbara Ehrenreich and Tamara Draut

Microcredit, Macro Issues Microcredit, Macro Issues

The Swedish Academy bestowed this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit. It's easy to believe Yunus's low-interest loans to the poor are a silver b...

Oct 15, 2006 / Walden Bello

The Coming Gay Republican Purge The Coming Gay Republican Purge

How will the GOP woo back values voters after the Foley scandal? How about a purge of gay Republicans in Congress? That's the Rev. Don Wildmon's idea.

Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / Max Blumenthal

Laboring Toward Election Day Laboring Toward Election Day

Despite the split following the 2004 election, labor groups are gearing up for the November elections like never before.

Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / David Moberg

Single-Issue Solipsism Single-Issue Solipsism

NARAL ProChoice America wants its sisters in Connecticut to support Joe Lieberman. Are they out of their minds?

Sep 21, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Light in Brooklyn A Light in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn, a beleaguered Arab-American community copes with bigotry and heightened government scrutiny post-9/11.

Sep 7, 2006 / Feature / Moustafa Bayoumi

Hog Hell Hog Hell

Low wages, segregation and dangerous working conditions in a North Carolina factory reveal a meatpacking industry where labor laws no longer matter.

Aug 27, 2006 / Feature / Eric Schlosser

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