Social Justice

Branding Kids for Life Branding Kids for Life

If you are the parent of a newborn, beware. Fourteen to eighteen months from now your child will be programmed to nag for a new toy or snack every four hours, "branded for life" ...

Nov 2, 2000 / Steven Manning

Gay-Bashing at the Polls Gay-Bashing at the Polls

In their hunger to take back the White House, the Jerry Falwells and the Pat Robertsons have swallowed the mellow prose of Texas scripted for them by George W.'s handlers--but at...

Oct 12, 2000 / Doug Ireland

Israeli Doves Speak Out Israeli Doves Speak Out

Although most Israelis, even those who consider themselves members of the left, are blaming Yasir Arafat for escalating the current violence, some are trying to voice a different...

Oct 12, 2000 / Neve Gordon

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

Aid for Nuclear Workers Aid for Nuclear Workers

Madame Curie's denial of radiation dangers is emblematic of the legacy we now face as America's romance with the atom draws to a close.

Sep 25, 2000 / Robert Alvarez

Color and the Court Color and the Court

The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Christopher Edley Jr.

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

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