Society

The Student Movement Comes of Age The Student Movement Comes of Age

Activists have achieved power. Now they need to figure out how to use it.

Sep 28, 2000 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Policing Pregnancy Policing Pregnancy

The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case that raises the stakes dramatically in the politics of fetal rights. At issue in Ferguson v. City of Charleston is whether a publ...

Sep 28, 2000 / Rachel Roth

North of the Border North of the Border

One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...

Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte

‘Controlling Authority’ ‘Controlling Authority’

In campaign speeches George W. Bush repeats Al Gore's defense of his 1996 campaign fundraising phone calls from his government office--"there is no controlling legal authority"--...

Sep 28, 2000 / Robert L. Weinberg

Moral Law, Changing Morals Moral Law, Changing Morals

A recent decision reminds us that true equality for gay people will arrive only when the Supreme Court is not controlled by Justices whose moral view of gay people is negative.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Chai R. Feldblum

In Business We Trust In Business We Trust

The Supreme Court once championed antitrust laws as valued tools to limit corporate power and to promote the autonomy, diversity and economic rights of people and firms without pow...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Eleanor Fox

Chase’s Historical Ledger Chase’s Historical Ledger

Chase should immediately open its archives to slavery researchers.

Sep 25, 2000 / John S. Friedman

No Love Lost for Labor No Love Lost for Labor

Right now, what hurts labor, day to day, is the wins and losses in the lower courts.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan

Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench

The future of the Supreme Court is the most important issue in the most important election year since 1932. Progressive Americans should treat it that way. The radical right does. ...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Ralph G. Neas

First Amendment for the Rich? First Amendment for the Rich?

At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Burt Neuborne

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