Leslie Savan, TheNation.com AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 3, 2009. Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair.
Raj Jayadev, New America Media. July 29, 2009. Tomorrow's White House happy hour is an uncommon ending to a common occurrence –- a man of color citing racial profiling after an arrest.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com. July 22, 2009. In a moment of overzealous policing, an officer in Cambridge handcuffed and detain a living embodiment of post-racial possibility.
Peter Schmidt, AlterNet. May 23, 2009. The results are campus environments where disregard for society is socially accepted, where misguided students are encouraged to become worse.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. December 9, 2008. Don't expect the so-called experts to fix it either. They can't. They are loyal to the decaying political and financial systems that empowered them.
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. April 16, 2008. Harvard's woman-only gym time has the Islamophobes out in full force. But let's get a grip: This isn't about terrorism, Osama bin Laden or burqas.
Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 13, 2008. Harvard has instituted a women-only gym hour to accommodate Muslim women, and conservatives are calling it "discrimination" against Ivy League men.