If most of us can agree the Iraq War is a colossal failure, why aren’t we doing much about it?
Courtney Martin
Courtney E. Martin is a Prospect senior correspondent. She is the author of Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists (Beacon Press). You can read more about her work at www.courtneyemartin.com.
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Time Off for the Overworked American
Our national work ethic should make us consider passing legislation to ensure we’re all taking enough vacation.
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Fighting Apart for Time Together
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of “Mother Load,” a TAP special report on work/family issues. I had one of those fathers who was always standing on the sidelines of my lacrosse games, cheering his heart out in a slightly wrinkled suit. When my teammates’ mothers would comment on how extraordinary it was that my […]
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Willful Ignorance
My friend Jen was squashed into a packed lecture hall at the University of Colorado in Boulder, scribbling notes as her sociology professor elucidated the power dynamics underlying rape, when all of a sudden her stomach and pen dropped simultaneously. Her mind flashed back to a night over a year earlier: moonlight coming through her […]