Social Justice

Whose Security? Whose Security?

Bush's counterterrorism efforts neglect women.

Sep 5, 2002 / Feature / Charlotte Bunch

Standing Up for Dissent Standing Up for Dissent

Every year Greensboro, North Carolina, holds a Fourth of July parade in which local organizations form the units. This year members of the Greensboro Peace Coalition decided--"...

Sep 5, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols

The Left and 9/11 The Left and 9/11

Sparks fly in the debate over the war on terror.

Sep 5, 2002 / Feature / Adam Shatz

Miami Heat Miami Heat

An antigay ballot initiative spurs some surprising political coalitions.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz

The Shame of Meatpacking The Shame of Meatpacking

Workers in the country's most dangerous industry are struggling for safety.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Karen Olsson

An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception

The one thing that activists on every side of the abortion debate agree on is that we should reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

Aug 29, 2002 / Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner

Join the EC E-mail Campaign Join the EC E-mail Campaign

America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control p...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Reproductive Freedom Reproductive Freedom

The Nation reported on Dr. Pendergraft's troubles in "Abortion on Trial" by Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy, June 18, 2001.

Jul 25, 2002 / Feature / Hillary Frey

Black Unlike Me Black Unlike Me

Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselv...

Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John McMillian

Hunting the Predators Hunting the Predators

Outraged at lenders who prey on the poor, activists are striking back.

Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray

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