Richard Kim

Richard Kim is a senior editor at The Nation.

Currently

  • The Perils of Palinism

    November 11, 2009

    With enemies like Sarah Palin, who needs friends?

  • Obama's Stonewall

    June 24, 2009

    Since Obama traced his dazzling arc to the presidency, his stance on gay rights has become murkier, and more Clintonian.

2008

  • Good God, Bad God

    December 23, 2008

    If Rick Warren, Barack Obama and the gay community can find common ground, it'll be on civil, not religious, grounds. So let's separate church and state.

  • Marital Discord: Why Prop 8 Won

    November 5, 2008

    With bald lies and racial pandering, an anti-gay marriage intiative succeeds in California.

  • Waiting for the Barbarians

    October 16, 2008

    The GOP's machinery of hate has taken on a life of its own.

  • 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 Subscribe

    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 Subscribe

    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

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 Subscribe

    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

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» The Beat

Facing Bipartisan Criticism, RNC's Steele Asks If Race Is Factor | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
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» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
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» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
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» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
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