Murdoch’s Extended Reach Murdoch’s Extended Reach
Rupert Murdoch will soon become an even more powerful presence in the US.
Jul 10, 2003 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Bob Moses Bob Moses
Late one night in October 1961, I flew from Atlanta to Jackson, Mississippi, with Bob Moses.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays--devout Christian minister, uncompromising advocate for justice, career educator and longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta--was called the "Sc...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Roger Wilkins
Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger
"No Gods, No Masters," the rallying cry of the Industrial Workers of the World, was her personal and political manifesto.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Ellen Chesler
Bella Abzug Bella Abzug
"I've been described as a tough noisy woman--a prizefighter--a man-hater...a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Patricia Bosworth
I.F. Stone I.F. Stone
Sidney Hook, the Marxist philosopher-turned-neoconservative who once mistakenly listed I.F.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Victor Navasky
“…the evidence indicates a pattern of abuse…” “…the evidence indicates a pattern of abuse…”
Post-9/11 detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were held in lockdown twenty-three hours a day (an
Jul 2, 2003 / Keith Aoki and Garrett Epps
A Summary of Justice Antonin Scalia’s Dissent In Lawrence v. Texas A Summary of Justice Antonin Scalia’s Dissent In Lawrence v. Texas
So what if it's private, in their hacienda? It's sodomy still, and enough to offend a Respectable man, and we must never lend a Leg up to that vile homosexual agenda!
Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Queer Cheer Queer Cheer
The Supreme Court's sweeping June 26 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas came almost seventeen years to the day after one of the darkest moments in the history of the gay movement.
Jul 2, 2003 / Richard Kim
Court-Watching Court-Watching
Nation readers should be excused for wondering whether they were in some sort of time warp as the Supreme Court closed its term with a slew of decisions that recalled the halcy...
Jul 2, 2003 / David Cole