July 29, 2013
—F. Michael Higginbotham The recent acquittal of George Zimmerman for shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has provoked outrage and widespread (yet mostly peaceful) protests from racially mixed, but predominantly… READ MORE
July 3, 2013
—Nadine Gordimer The nobel laureate on Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, a new biography of South Africa’s revolutionary couple, published by Monthly Review Press. [Below… READ MORE
June 26, 2013
—Suzanna Danuta Walters So the verdict is in and the celebrations have begun. Striking down the odious Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and allowing the challenge to Prop 8 to… READ MORE
—Ruth Colker Raised in a Spanish-speaking household, Peter learned to speak English at age two while recuperating from a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Despite… READ MORE
June 21, 2013
—Lisa Henderson This Pride Month, let’s think about queers and social class. The recent report, A Broken Bargain: Discrimination, Fewer Benefits, and More Taxes for LGBT Workers makes clear that… READ MORE
June 18, 2013
—Melanie Heath It is always striking when conservatives and progressives agree. On Fox News earlier this year, psychiatrist and Fox news contributor Keith Ablow weighed in on whether the government… READ MORE
May 23, 2013
—Margaret S. Williams The recent New York Times article discussing the branding of mayoral candidate Christine Quinn highlights the double-bind female candidates often face in American elections. Female candidates need… READ MORE
May 21, 2013
One Day in December casts a spotlight on the remarkable “missing actor” of the Cuban Revolution, Celia Sánchez. Based on ten years of original research, the biography draws on interviews with Sánchez’s friends,… READ MORE