Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet. July 4, 2008. Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.
Roberto Lovato, The Nation. May 15, 2008. Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.
Rebecca Solnit, Orion Magazine. March 20, 2008. Answering that requires digging into American race and class wars, and into the broad crises of environmentalism.
Carrie Kilman, In These Times. October 10, 2007. In the South, grassroots activists are fighting back against an increasingly hostile anti-abortion movement.
Bob Moser, The Nation. February 12, 2007. The most misleading, destructive and threadbare myth of contemporary American politics is that the so-called red-state South is a solid Republican block.
Bob Moser, The Nation. November 9, 2006. No message from this triumphal mid-term election should ring more loudly than this: the South cannot be written off by the Democratic Party.
Thomas Schaller, In These Times. November 4, 2006. The upcoming election guarantees gains for the Democrats. but they won't be coming from the South. It's time to whistle past Dixie.
Rebecca Clarren, Ms. Magazine. October 20, 2006. South Dakotans have come out in force against a draconian abortion ban. Can they stop it before it upends abortion rights throughout the nation?
Sarah Blustain, Reva Siegel, The American Prospect. October 12, 2006. As South Dakotans prepare to vote on the abortion ban, they're hearing a twisted new argument: that the state must "protect" women by forcing them to bear children.