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Feature
How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t
Toole sees Stonewall as a turning point for the LGBTQ movement, but not for everyone in it.
Naomi Gordon-Loebl
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It’s Time to Reembrace a Politics of Radical, Queer, Outsider Activism
Fierce, direct action has always been our most urgent strategy—and messy, massive protest anchors every gain.
Urvashi Vaid
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Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back
“It’s a humanitarian issue. We will not allow an atrocity to occur in our community.”
Sasha Abramsky
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How Do You Create Community Out of a Rainbow of Difference?
One answer lies in the Stonewall, when, in the heat of collective oppression, a motley band of outcasts chose to fight side by side.
Justice Ameer Gaines and Chrysanthemum Tran
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Elizabeth Warren Has Made Her Story America’s Story
The presidential contender is using her biography to set up her ambitious policy agenda—and it’s working.
Joan Walsh
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The Undelivered Promise of the Gay Liberation Struggle
What happened to the radical vision of the post-Stonewall activists who insisted on sweeping social transformation?
Martin Duberman
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In 1969, I Had No Idea a Social Justice Movement Could Center a Kid Like Me
Then, miles away from my small Illinois town, Stonewall happened.
Sue Hyde
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The LGBTQ Struggle Has Always Been Intertwined With the Fight for Voting Rights
Now, as the right wing intensifies its attacks on voting rights, LGBTQ allies are needed more than ever.
Rashad Robinson
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The Gentrification of Queerness
Christopher Street was once a haven for queer people of color. Its transformation into an outpost of white, upper-middle class respectability tells a larger story of exclusion.
Darnell L. Moore
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Reclaiming Stonewall: Welcome to the Celebration—and the Struggle
As we reckon with the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, it is essential that we ask, “What still needs to be done?”
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
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What if Reporters Covered the Climate Crisis Like Edward R. Murrow Covered the Start of World War II?
The new Covering Climate Now project will help media “tell the story so people get it.”
Bill Moyers
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Editorial
Trump Will Stumble Into War Against Iran—Unless We Stop Him
Powerful administration hawks are baying for blood, which is why we need mass protests to prevent yet another catastrophic Middle East war.
Michael T. Klare
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What We All Owe to Gay Liberation
Stonewall shows us what fighting back looked like in an era when state power was hostile.
Emily Douglas and The Nation
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For Joe Biden, Friendship Is Magic
His praise of white supremacists is not a blunder but a key to his clubby worldview.
Jeet Heer
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Column
As Trump Lays Out a War Pretext, the Media Misses the Context
The only threat Iran poses to the US is in retaliation to Trump’s attacks.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
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Namwali Serpell’s Postcolonial Epic
The Old Drift tells the multigenerational story of Zambia coming into being.
Nawal Arjini
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The Long and Grim Road to ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’
Steven Luxenberg’s new book offers a vivid account of the events that led to the ruling.
David Cole
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The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories
Noura Erakat’s new book examines the legal arguments used to justify Israel’s occupation—and the legal arguments that might have been used to counter it.
Raja Shehadeh
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