Richard Kim

Richard Kim is an associate editor at The Nation. He writes frequently about race, sexuality and popular culture. Kim is a co-editor of the forthcoming anthology A New Queer Agenda (NYU Press).

The Culture War Disarmed

May 22, 2008

This time, Democrats won't be losing the culture war.

2007

Mike Gravel

November 8, 2007

An inconvenient truth-teller.
One of My Own

April 26, 2007

Although the murders at Virginia Tech had nothing to do with race, Korean Americans remain worried about anti-Asian fallout.

2006

Haggard Values

November 9, 2006

The homophobic values vote took a body blow in the midterm elections, helped along by hypocrisy in high places.
The People Versus AIDS

June 21, 2006

If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding world leaders accountable.

2005

Pop Torture

December 7, 2005

Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help foil bombs seconds before detonation. In shows like 24, where scenes of sensory deprivation are mixed with family melodrama, torture is so routine that it seems one more plot device to create intimacy in characters. The reality is that torture isolates its victims from any sense of intimacy.
In Defense of Pat Robertson

August 26, 2005

The wacky televangelist may have done us a favor by bringing the insanity of Bush Administration tactics into plain view.
Witnesses to an Execution

August 7, 2005

An international furor over the hanging of "two gay teenagers" in Iran.
Beyond Gay Marriage

June 29, 2005

By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.

2004

The L Word

October 19, 2004

Mary Cheney has devoted her entire career to providing cover for lesbian-hating organizations.
Goodbye, Mr. McGreevey

August 17, 2004

How Jim McGreevey perfected the art of swimming in the mainstream.
State of the Union

June 18, 2004
The Descent of Marriage?

February 27, 2004

When gays wed, all hell will break loose. If only.

2003

Queer Cheer

July 2, 2003

Lawrence ought to be read as protecting all consensual, private sexual relations, not just those that resemble heterosexual, procreative marriage.
Sodomy for Some

May 1, 2003

Santorum hates much more than just "homosexual acts."
Bush and AIDS

February 6, 2003

For Bush's words to translate into an effective AIDS plan, the Administration will have to reverse course on its policies.
What Are They Reading?

January 8, 2003