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
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