Diversity is healthcare reform's worst enemy. White America has never
liked social insurance for people of color
By Michael Lind Sep 15, 2009
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His list of achievements is epic, but he worked to fix healthcare for 40 years. Let's finish the job in his name
By Joe Conason
August 28, 2009
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Since gays and lesbians can't say "I do," some churches are getting out of the marriage business
By Lilly Fowler
July 10, 2009
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How does it feel to be one of the same-sex couples whose marriage is still legal in California?
By Bob Morris
May 27, 2009
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In the 1960s, they protested in Alabama, registered voters in Mississippi and marched on Washington. In a new photo essay, they speak out on race and Obama.
By Lauren Hermele
April 2, 2009
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Denzel, Diddy, Jay-Z and Beyonce are left alone while inauguration crowds flock to history makers like the Tuskegee Airmen.
By Joan Walsh
January 20, 2009
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On this day when we vow to begin again, a prayer for a sea change in America.
By Gary Kamiya
January 20, 2009
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MLK helped pave the road to the White House for Obama, but it will take more than Tuesday's inauguration to fulfill King's dream.
By Joan Walsh
January 19, 2009
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The good news is that it's clear what the Obama administration must do to end the decade-long war on the Constitution.
By Glenn Greenwald
January 1, 2009
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The "Lemony Snicket" author remembers his nerve-racking musical run-in with Odetta, the late folk singer and activist.
By Daniel Handler
December 8, 2008
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A do-gooder who fights for civil rights and the environment -- and looks like he wandered straight off a Ralph Lauren shoot.
November 20, 2008
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His politics and his methods live on -- among liberals as well as conservatives.
By Michael Lind
July 11, 2008
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And it's still the dream we hold, even if our marriage is -- for now, anyway -- legal.
By Sara Miles
May 17, 2008
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The late civil rights pioneer on the right to marry.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 7, 2008
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The former Goldwater Girl became a member of the Democratic Party's new vanguard. But that's not how many liberals see her today.
By Edward McClelland
April 8, 2008
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Do price breaks for women discriminate against men?
By Lynn Harris
December 12, 2007
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Created to protect the slave states, it is championed now by conservatives who fear the power of America's true majority. It's time to ditch the antiquated way we choose presidents.
By Garrett Epps
October 12, 2007
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Transgender people are not beggars at the civil rights table set by gay and lesbian activists. They are integral to the struggle for gender freedom for all.
By Susan Stryker
October 11, 2007
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I worry that Alice Waters' crusade for local, seasonal food isn't reaching the people who really need it.
By Novella Carpenter
August 1, 2007
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A White House plan to install a DOJ official with a lousy reputation on workers' rights to the powerful EEOC falters as Barack Obama and former DOJ employees protest.
By Alia Malek
July 28, 2007
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A staunch opponent of segregation, Lady Bird Johnson shares the glory of the greatest presidency for civil rights since Lincoln.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 13, 2007
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The venerable advocacy group changed history with its civil rights leadership -- so why does it seem to have lost its way?
By Debra Dickerson
June 19, 2007
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More details on how the Bush administration used the Justice Department as a partisan tool.
By Mark Follman
March 30, 2007
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The Washington Post asks the dubious question: Is America more racist or more sexist?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
November 13, 2006
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For eight centuries, habeas corpus has shielded people from detention without trial. The Senate "compromise" denies this right -- and threatens the rule of law.
By Michael Ratner, with Sara Miles
September 26, 2006
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Are we there yet, Martin? 
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The voice that gave me goose bumps
The activist
Jesse Helms is not dead
A band of gold
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Let's abolish the Electoral College
Why the T in LGBT is here to stay
Why I pick lettuce for the Black Panthers
Bush civil rights nominee under fire
A Southern, and liberal, Lady
The NAACP's sad decline
Manipulating Justice to win elections
Keep the Great Writ alive
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