Gay Rights Beyond Marriage and the Military

• Detroit Elects Openly Gay City Council President

  Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

  Matthew Wolfe: Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.

• Stonewall 2.0

  Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

  Christopher Lisotta: Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.

• Slide Show: Gay Rights Now

  Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

  As we round out 2009, The Nation highlights the successes, failures and possibilities of the gay rights movement.

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• New Report Reveals US Funds the Taliban

  Afghanistan War

  Democracy Now : Nation contributor Aram Roston on how the US government is financing the very same insurgent forces in Afghanistan that American and NATO soldiers are fighting.

• Triple Canopy Iraq and Electrocution Deaths

  Iraq War

  Democracy Now : Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."

• CIA Hires Blackwater for Assassinations

  Blackwater

  Democracy Now : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill talks about the possible involvement of the private contractor's owner Erik Prince in multiple murders.