Social Justice

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

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

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

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

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