What’s Wrong With Choosing to Be Gay?

Many gay activists insist that they were born this way, hey. But what about those who choose otherwise?

E.J. Graff

Elizabeth Warren Heads to Washington, an Uncompromising Senator for the Left

Her clear-as-a-bell progressive convictions mobilized a massive grassroots base.

E.J. Graff

Advantage Elizabeth Warren

The campaign”s final stretch finds Warren with a small lead and a revved-up volunteer base.

E.J. Graff

Elizabeth Warren: Yes She Can?

Progressives adore her. Conservatives despise her. But it's Massachusetts' fickle independents who'll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown.

E.J. Graff

Is DOMA Dead?

Earlier this week, Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration will no longer defend DOMA. But the bigger news is that the Justice Department says that gays and lesbians deserve stronger constitutional protections.

E.J. Graff

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Proposition 8 Lawsuit

The decision overturning Proposition 8 is full of careful reasoning in support of same-sex marriage. But is it written so broadly that it invites the Supreme Court to weigh in—and what will happen if it does?

E.J. Graff

End of the World As We Know It?

I'm not a climate scientist or geologist, and no, I don't play one on TV. So I can't assess the accuracy of the report below from yesterday's Guardian. But it sure did catch my attention:

"The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.

"Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low.

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Follow-Up Thoughts on the LGBT Debate

Just a short blog entry to follow up on what I wrote on Friday about the LOGO presidential debate.

I've heard from a few people that Barack Obama was asking smart insider questions about whether marriage is the right focus now for the LGBT movement, or whether it shouldn't be left for later--the way interracial marriage wasn't first on the black civil rights movement's agenda.

No. Obama was missing two things: the different significance of marriage to those two very different movements, and the community history on this issue.

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The Gay Presidential Debate

What do the Democratic presidential candidates talk about when they talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues?

E.J. Graff

Should Mothers Work Fulltime?

E.J. Graff