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Anti-Feminist Backlash Out in Full Force

By Katha Pollitt, The Nation. May 9, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Republican hegemony, conservative Christianity and misogynist media are taking their toll.

Reason Number 2,767 Why Gay Rights Matter to Everyone

By Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog. May 9, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Right-wingers who fight gay rights are the same sex-phobes who want to stop birth control, sex education and abortion.

Marketing Ethnic Cleansing: Israel Parties Like It's 1948 on its 60th Birthday

By Linda Mamoun, AlterNet. May 8, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: The frenzy around Israel Independence Day is an attempt to freeze history in 1948 when public support of Israel was unequivocal.

Psst... Government-Supplied Marijuana Program Turns 30

By Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. May 7, 2008.
DrugReporter: That's right, our government has been supplying medical marijuana to some patients for three full decades.

Maternal Profiling

By Anita Sarah Jackson, Huffington Post. May 7, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Moms across the country face workplace discrimination, but the media has been largely silent on the issue.

Executions Resume Today, Death Penalty Still Cruel and Unusual

By Billy Sothern, The Nation. May 6, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Barring a last-minute stay of execution, death row prisoner William Lynd will be murdered by the state of Georgia tonight.

"Pro-Lifers" Protest Contraception

By Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. May 6, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Birth control is the best way to lower the abortion rate. So why are anti-choicers rallying against it and claiming that "the pill kills babies"?

Instead of Scapegoating Immigrants, Wage and Workplace Enforcement for Everyone

By Joe Bolkcom, AlterNet. May 5, 2008.
Immigration: Immigrants don't work jobs Americans won't take -- they work side by side together so let's help both prosper.

'Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay' Is Funny -- Nothing About the Real Place Is

By Shayana Kadidal, The Nation. May 4, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Guantánamo can be treated as a punch line because Americans see it as an abstract issue rather than a real place with real prisoners.

Was It Really What Jeremiah Wright Said, Or Was It Because He's Black?

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. May 3, 2008.
Election 2008: White preachers are given leeway in politics that Jeremiah Wright wasn't.

Why We Need to Rise up Against Industrial Agriculture (Again)

By Will Allen, AlterNet. May 3, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Much of our food supply is based on entrepreneurial gambling that relies on chemical pesticides and fertilizers to make huge profits.

Experts: Clinton/McCain Gas Tax 'Holiday' a Joke

By Sam Stein, Huffington Post. May 2, 2008.
Election 2008: It's "so ridiculous ... it takes your breath away."

What Are Bisexuals? Chopped Liver?

By Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog. May 2, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Our culture still ignores the full spectrum of sexual orientation -- and the shifts that many of us make over that spectrum throughout our lives.

Why You Shouldn't Spend that 'Stimulus' Check

By Max Keiser, Huffington Post. May 1, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: If we refused to cash our checks, the value of the dollars in our pockets would go up by more than the face value of the stimulus refund.

The Curse of the Clintons

By Thomas Palley, AlterNet. April 30, 2008.
Election 2008: The truth is they have become a curse for Democrats and not an asset.

The Political Consulting Racket: Elites Working Hard to Keep Elites Rich

By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 30, 2008.
Democracy and Elections: America's elite political consultants are making millions off the political contributions of average Americans.

Yesterday's "Broad" Is Today's Kick-Ass Woman

By Meta Wagner, PopMatters. April 30, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: This species of woman is endangered because, to flourish, society must appreciate a zaftig figure, hard-won lines, and unapologetic strength.

Corporate Vultures Lurk Behind the World Food Crisis

By Anuradha Mittal, AlterNet. April 29, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: The IMF, WTO and the rest of the neoliberal world are still pushing more trade as a cure for what ails us.

On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton

By Jessica Wakeman, Huffington Post. April 29, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: There are plenty of ways to criticize Hillary Clinton without resorting to sexism, but the mainstream media refuses to go beyond frat-boy commentary.

Help Us Write "The Gender Speech"

By Marie Wilson, Huffington Post. April 29, 2008.
Election 2008: Gender equality will only become a reality when we all contribute our voices to it. Let's start now.

Half of Vets Suffering Brain and Mind Injuries Go Untreated, But Pentagon Pretends Nothing's Going on

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. April 29, 2008.
War on Iraq: An activist travels to the DoD's annual suicide prevention conference, only to find the military brass living in a parallel universe.

The Abortion Conversation We Should Be Having

By Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet. April 27, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Abortion is not an isolated issue of choice, but part of a complex set of issues that reproductive rights advocates need to address holistically.

Workers' Rights: a Good Reason to Oppose Colombia Trade Deal

By Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno, The Hill. April 26, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Congress can show that it's serious about workers' rights by pressing Colombia to change the pattern of violence and paramilitary influence.

New Oklahoma Law: Women Seeking Abortions Must Have Ultrasounds Against Their Will

By Dana Stone, AlterNet. April 26, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Anti-choicers in Oklahoma have pushed through a bill that requires doctors to perform invasive ultrasounds, even if the patients say no.

Men of the Cloth: The Vatican Isn't So Far From Fundamentalist Mormonism

By Katha Pollitt, The Nation. April 26, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: When it comes to keeping women in their place, polygamous Mormon fundamentalists and the Pope have a lot in common.

The Science of Sexuality

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. April 25, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: We should stop ignoring scientific findings that do not mesh with our political beliefs.

Victory Over Violence -- For Women and Men

By Rob Okun, AlterNet. April 25, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: V-Day reminds us that creating a world safe for women and girls means creating a world safe for boys and men. Now it's time for men to do their part.

Basra Battles Echo Vietnam's Tet Offensive -- Will We Ever Learn History's Lessons?

By Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 25, 2008.
War on Iraq: The Bush administration needs to be reminded that Iraq is not a war -- it's a country.

Food Riots Erupt Worldwide

By Anuradha Mittal, AlterNet. April 25, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: It's time to stop worshiping at the altar of 'market forces.'

Spinning Saddam's So-Called Links to al-Qaeda

By David Isenberg, CounterPunch. April 24, 2008.
War on Iraq: Further evidence that the al-Qaeda/Saddam link was bogus will do little to change the distorted opinions of those who support the Iraq occupation.

Hedge Fund Managers Turning the Woes of the World into Billion-Dollar Paydays

By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 24, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The sums they’re raking in would have been impossible to believe even just half a dozen years ago.

Relatively Masculine

By Bradford Noble, Gay.com. April 23, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Everyone has a different idea of what masculinity is. How does this play out in the gay dating scene?

What Does the Petraeus Appointment Mean?

By Ilan Goldenberg, Huffington Post. April 23, 2008.
War on Iraq: As the head of U.S. Central Command, Petraeus will have to answer some tough questions he has thus far been able to avoid.

Forced Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners: A Crisis for Health Professionals

By Stephen Soldz, AlterNet. April 23, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: With growing evidence of involuntary drugging of prisoners at Guantánamo, health professionals must take an unequivocal stance on torture.

Feds Bring an Ounce of Sanity to Our Drug Laws with the Second Chance Act

By Malakkar Vohryzek, AlterNet. April 22, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Why are we still incarcerating people who use controlled substances, when we have ample evidence that this "cure" is worse than the "disease"?

Anti-Choicers are Closet Communists

By Ema, The Well Timed Period. April 22, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: An Orwellian new bill claims to "protect" pregnant women as it compromises their health and removes their basic rights.

Putting a Check on Corporate Power

By Charlie Cray, AlterNet. April 21, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The ultimate enemy of democracy -- corporate power -- extends far beyond the two major parties and the three major branches of government.

Ending Slavery for Pennies

By Katrina vanden Heuvel, Greg Kaufman, TheNation.com. April 21, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The slave-like conditions in the agriculture industry would shock most Americans.

At War With Ourselves: Battling Sexual Violence in the Military

By Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check. April 21, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: U.S. servicewomen are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. It's time we dealt with this national disgrace.

Holding Passover as If Earth Really Matters

By Arthur Waskow, TheNation.com. April 19, 2008.
Environment: Passover teaches us that spring cleaning is a time to simplify our lives.

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