Politics
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Gingrich to gay man: Vote for Obama
When asked how he plans to engage the gay community in his bid for president, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday told a voter he wouldn’t be...
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Occupy Denver protesters disrupt vigil held to honor homeless who died in past year
After days of urging protesters to remove shanties from the Broadway sidewalk along Civic Center park, across the street from the site of Tuesday’s candlelight...
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, is Dead
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North’s official news...
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The GOP’s Christian Nationalist Faith Pimps
In American politics, patriotism, race-baiting, and faith-based pandering are the last refuge of a scoundrel. And this political season militant GOP appeals to white Christian...
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On Location: The “I” in the Intersection
The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and...
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Video: 16 year old Jane Schmidt and another unnamed student asks Michele Bachmann about LGBT rights and bullying
“All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights,” Bachmann told Jane Schmidt, 16, who identified herself as a...
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HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values
Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post that new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health...
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2011 World AIDS Forum
If the AIDS epidemic has revealed the fragmentation of our society and more importantly the breakdown of African American communities, then, in the end, to...
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Mitt Romney's Evolving Attitude Toward Women
By Amanda Winkler Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking out about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attitude toward women, asserting...
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Writer/Activist Mona Eltahawy Arrested, Beaten, Sexually Assaulted By Police In Cairo
Mona Eltahawy — New York-based blogger, feminist activist, award-winning columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues — was arrested yesterday in Cairo. She’d...
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Exclusive: Bachmann Reception on ‘Fallon’—Unfunny, Guys
Commentator Megan Carpentier offers five songs The Roots—famous for their satiric walk-on song picks on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”—could have used to “snark” Michele...
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It Matters what Team You Play For: Heteronormativity in Sports
Oscar Wilde once described the game of Rugby as “a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.” While Wilde...
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Hecklers interrupt Obama at event in New Hampshire
Protesters reportedly with the Occupy Wall Street movement delayed the start of President Obama’s speech in Manchester, New Hampshire Tuesday, chanting over the president as...
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Supercommittee fallout: Lawmakers Trade Blame as Deficit Talks Crumble
Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure. Unfortunately, the stalemate between members of both parties won’t likely be...
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Police Burn Tents To Clear Cairo's Tahrir Square
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro As Egyptian civilians gathered around Tahrir Square to urge the military government to transfer power to a civilian government (an agreement made...
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"Is a Woman President ‘Macho’ Enough for Mexico?"
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro In less than nine months, Mexico will have the chance to vote for their first female president. Josefina Vazquez-Mota is competing for...
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Mixed Signals Spark Fear, Hope For Saudi Women
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia originally told Saudi women he intended to give them more rights in 2015 (to which Saudi feminists...