Law’s the Law in Boston Law’s the Law in Boston
Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law deserves the Watergate Award for Obfuscatory Declamation: He has characterized his nearly two decades of cover-up of felonies--namely, the rape and m...
Mar 7, 2002 / Margaret Spillane
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality
In my last column, I mentioned that most actual drug users are young white people, even though most of those "profiled" as drug users are people of color. Indeed, according to th...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Mother-Worship Mother-Worship
This is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on the women's rights movement and feminism, click here fo...
Mar 6, 2002 / Feature / The Nation
The Making of a Militant The Making of a Militant
This article originally appeared in the December 1, 1926, issue, inaugurating a feature called "These Modern Women," "a series of anonymous articles giving the personal backgrounds...
Mar 6, 2002 / Feature
Birth Control Wins Birth Control Wins
Two events which occurred at the end of 1936 may signify a turning-point in the birth-control movement in America.
Mar 6, 2002 / Feature / Hannah M. Stone
The Education of Women The Education of Women
In most of the discussions in relation to the improvement of female education, the objectors have shown themselves unable to rise above the utilitarian, or rather the purely mate...
Mar 5, 2002 / The Editors
The Feminist Crusade The Feminist Crusade
This essay, from the July 17, 1948, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on fem...
Mar 5, 2002 / Feature / Ramona Barth
What Women Vote For What Women Vote For
The question about the so-called "women's vote" is generally phrased: How will the women vote? The answer to that is too easy. Women vote just as men vote.
Mar 5, 2002 / Elizabeth Hawes
H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story
Die Nigger Die!, the autobiographical political memoir by H. Rap Brown, is a vital American historical document--historical almost in the sense of a message found in a time capsu...
Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
Tulsa’s Shame Tulsa’s Shame
Race riot victims still wait for promised reparations.
Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Adrian Brune