Society

Rebuilding the Gay Movement Rebuilding the Gay Movement

When Republican Senator Al D'Amato was endorsed for re-election last November by the Human Rights Campaign--the nation's wealthiest gay civil rights lobby--the HRC's appalling de...

Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland

Love and Hate in Laramie Love and Hate in Laramie

Research assistance: Robin Reardon.

Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz

CUNY Under Attack CUNY Under Attack

The politics of America's largest urban university have entered a restless, disordered, tumultuous period, a violent whirlpool from which it seems unable to extricate itself.

Jun 17, 1999 / Frederick S. Lane

A Hard Schooling A Hard Schooling

I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system. Of the 150 receiving degrees today, you hold only 191 jobs. That is less than two jobs p...

Jun 17, 1999 / Jimmy Breslin

Racial Ventriloquism Racial Ventriloquism

I know I'm not supposed to read too much into a movie like Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but when you're living with a 6-year-old whose entire generation role-plays and reiterat...

Jun 17, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Depression Confession Depression Confession

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Jun 10, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Officer and the Diva The Officer and the Diva

This spring, two important chapters in the surprising story of Israeli gay and lesbian politics concluded.

Jun 10, 1999 / Feature / Joshua Gamson

Morning-After Pill Ban Morning-After Pill Ban

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Jun 3, 1999 / Patricia Miller

Media Matters Media Matters

"Politics and language," explains the dust jacket on the latest edition of Safire's New Political Dictionary, are "William Safire's two great and abiding interests." True, but to...

Jun 3, 1999 / Column / David Sarasohn

The Net That Binds The Net That Binds

This article is adapted from Andrew L. Shapiro's book about the politics of the Internet, The Control Revolution (PublicAffairs/Century Foundation). For more information visit www....

Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Andrew L. Shapiro

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