Miami Heat Miami Heat
An antigay ballot initiative spurs some surprising political coalitions.
Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz
The Shame of Meatpacking The Shame of Meatpacking
Workers in the country's most dangerous industry are struggling for safety.
Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Karen Olsson
An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception
The one thing that activists on every side of the abortion debate agree on is that we should reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Aug 29, 2002 / Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner
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America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control p...
Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Reproductive Freedom Reproductive Freedom
The Nation reported on Dr. Pendergraft's troubles in "Abortion on Trial" by Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy, June 18, 2001.
Jul 25, 2002 / Feature / Hillary Frey
Black Unlike Me Black Unlike Me
Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselv...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John McMillian
Hunting the Predators Hunting the Predators
Outraged at lenders who prey on the poor, activists are striking back.
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray
Framed by the FBI Framed by the FBI
The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrong...
Jun 20, 2002 / James X. Dempsey
Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right
They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein
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