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Jaclyn Friedman on sexual-assault prevention on college campuses: The college students are back. They’re in the grocery stores, stocking up on Top Ramen. They’re at IKEA, buying oddly shaped pillows for their dorm rooms. Very soon, they’ll be at parties, doing things that would give their parents full-on coronaries. And that means it’s time for […]

Michelle Goldberg on the pros and cons of political extremism: Recently, we’ve seen the radically different ways that Democrats and Republicans deal with political radicalism in their ranks. Throughout the summer, right-wing protestors descended upon town halls nationwide screaming about socialism and death panels, and the GOP consistently defended them and egged them on — […]

Paul Waldman on Wednesday’s health-care address: Not long after the general presidential election began last year, some momentary fluctuation in the polls led to a fevered round of hand-wringing on the left. Our nominee is letting it slip away!, people cried. He ought to shift his strategy, change this, alter that! Then a photo of […]

Adam Serwer on what happens when detainees are sent back to their home countries: After seven years of being locked in the Guantánamo Bay detention center, Mohammed Jawad was headed back to prison. That was what one of Jawad’s former attorneys, Maj. Eric Montalvo, realized soon after arriving in Afghanistan last month. In 2002, the […]

Gabriel Arana on what the gay-rights movement has lost by making Shepard its icon: Since Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered a decade ago, his story has achieved the status of parable, illustrating how ugly anti-gay bigotry really is. Every year, thousands of high school students across the country perform Moises Kaufman’s play, The Laramie Project […]

Terence Samuel on Obama‘s need to lay down the facts on health care: Mr. President: You’re right; they’re wrong, and don’t you forget it. There is some good news for President Barack Obama on health-care reform: No one of consequence is seriously arguing to kill it outright. Despite all the sound and fury of the […]

Michelle Goldberg on the secret lives of nannies: Compared to their counterparts in many European countries, American women get almost no public support in their struggle to combine work and motherhood. Judging from the dispiriting conservative freak-out over health-care reform, that’s unlikely to change any time soon — one can only imagine the type of […]

Harold Meyerson on George Will, Bill Kristol, and the direction of the conservative movement: The dispute that, predictably enough, erupted yesterday in the ranks of the right over George Will’s call for U.S. disengagement from Afghanistan underscores just how marginalized Will’s traditional conservatism has become within the movement that calls itself conservative when it is […]

Tim Fernholz sees Richard Trumka getting tough with uncooperative Democrats: Unless you are among the 27 percent of American workers who don’t get Monday off, you’re probably looking forward to next week’s Labor Day holiday, with its barbecues and back-to-school sales. But organized labor — which earned us the holiday in a political sop after […]

Surprise — according to The Wall Street Journal, House transportation committee chair Jim Oberstar said yesterday that it’s unlikely that a transit bill will pass this fall. The bill Oberstar introduced this summer would, over the span of six years, allot a total of $500 billion to everything from the standard highway projects to high-speed […]