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Is Mexico City a Safe Haven From the Drug War? Don't Bet Your Life

Michael Miller, The Brooklyn Rail. April 7, 2010.

Living in Mexico City is a lesson in will power: you learn to deceive yourself into thinking that the horrors that are everywhere else in Mexico do not exist here.

Major Drug Conference in Mexican Drug War Says Prohibition Has Failed, Calls for New Policy

Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 26, 2010.

Coming as Mexico's war on drugs turns bloodier by the day, the conference concluded that current prohibitionist policies are a disaster.

This Was the Decade For Same-Sex Marriage. Who Knew?

Melissa McEwan, Comment Is Free. December 29, 2009.

In the year 2000, I never would have imagined that we'd be seeing a global movement for marriage equality.

Mexico City Becomes the First Latin American City to Approve a Gay Marriage Law

Steven D., Booman Tribune. December 22, 2009.

Lawmakers approved the bill yesterday by a vote of 39-20.

On Sports and Civil Rights: An Olympic Moment Remembered

Jim Munn, AlterNet. August 9, 2008.

Forty years have passed since Tommie Smith and John Carlos' medal stand demonstration drew attention to the state of civil rights in America.