How you can join the 1 percent.
E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Yes, It’s “Rape” Rape
Good news: We’ll soon see an increase in reported crime.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Outsiders Everywhere
America’s obsession with the meritocracy makes social mobility harder than ever.
Posted inBooks
International Adoption or Child Trafficking?
As Finding Fernanda documents, Guatemala’s adoption system has been the most corrupt in the world for over a decade.
Posted inAmerica and the World
You’re One of the Richest People in the World. You.
Half of the richest people in the world live in the U.S. … and you’re one of them.
Posted inAmerica and the World
While You Were Out
Same-sex marriages in Spain and Mexico, the cost of being a same-sex couple in Michigan and the U.S. at large, and (woohoo!) transgender breakthroughs
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Catholic Bishops versus Tolerance
Making children suffer for your religious beliefs
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Up With “Progressives”! Down With Socialists!
On progressives, conservatives, and Kenyan-born Muslim socialists
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Friday Miscellany, Year-End 2011
A Navy sailor’s public kiss, a Ugandan activist’s courage, a hurrah for the Girl Scouts, and the passing of an accidental hero.
