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What to Do When 'I Do' Is Done
Feb 05, 2015LGBT activists and funders are debating the movement’s post-marriage priorities.
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Should Liberals Back Public Employee Unions?
Jul 12, 2015The stakes in the new battle over unions have far-reaching implications.
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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Sex, Lies and Justice
Jan 12, 2015Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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The Only Good to Come of the Kavanaugh Fight
Oct 05, 2018At least we will have greater clarity about a right-wing Supreme Court.
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Trump and McConnell Take Gaslighting to New Level in Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight
Oct 05, 2018The use of an anti-Semitic trope to condemn protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights signals a turning point in the authoritarian trajectory of our politics.
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Thursday’s Anti-Kavanaugh March
Oct 05, 2018Sexual-assault survivors and protesters demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court against Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
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The Collins Conundrum
Oct 04, 2018Maine’s court of public opinion considers the case of Brett Kavanaugh—and of Susan Collins, too.
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Enough Is Enough: Kavanaugh Should Not Sit on the Supreme Court
Oct 02, 2018A law professor who works with juvenile offenders believes that the judge’s behavior during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing disqualifies him from a lifetime appointment.
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America's Bullies
Oct 02, 2018More than ever before, November's midterms will be a contest between the bullies and the bullied.
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Will the Republicans Dump Kavanaugh?
Oct 01, 2018It all comes down to the FBI's investigation.
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A Very Tarnished Court
Oct 01, 2018Kavanaugh, or his replacement, will be the fifth Republican justice sitting illegitimately.
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The Best Explanation for Ford's and Kavanaugh's Conflicting Stories
Oct 01, 2018Christine Blasey Ford was scarred for life. Brett Kavanaugh doesn't have any reason to remember it.
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What Will the FBI Actually Investigate — If Anything?
Sep 28, 2018Conundrums from the Flake proposal
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Trump and Kavanaugh: Sexualized Dominance and Executive Power
Sep 26, 2018By scheduling the committee vote on the Supreme Court nominee just after his accuser’s testimony, Republicans show they’ll be listening to her with their fingers in their ears—and that they're ready to confirm a justice with expansive views of executive privilege.
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Why Republicans Are Fighting so Hard for Brett Kavanaugh
Sep 23, 2018They could easily replace him with a nominee who would vote exactly the same way on the Supreme Court. But they won't.
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SeaWorld's and Kavanaugh’s Missing Empathy Gene
Sep 21, 2018The Supreme Court nominee showed more concern for overregulation than worker safety in a U.S. Court of Appeals case involving the death of a whale trainer.
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I Know Why Sexually Assaulted Women Resist Coming Forward; I’ve Been There
Sep 19, 2018To name your attacker is to invite vilification by a society more inclined to believe him than you.
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Every Woman in America Is Watching
Sep 18, 2018The allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court hopeful Brett Kavanaugh have roiled the country in much the same way that Anita Hill’s accusations against Clarence Thomas once did. Will the harsh glare of the #MeToo era spark a different outcome?
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