Yesterday, Texas opened up debate on a bill that requires a photo ID at the polls. [S]everal Senate sources who have looked at [the bill] say it’s a more stringent requirement than the one on the table in 2009. In 2009, they were talking about requiring photo ID or two forms of non-photo ID; the […]
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Q&A: Fighting for Women in the States
TAP talks with Nancy Northup about how nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, the battle to ensure reproductive rights has gone local.
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Beyond Privacy
Reproductive rights advocates are fighting state-level abortion restrictions with creative litigation — and winning.
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A D.C. Repro Rights Victory
Congress ended a ban on D.C.’s use of local funds to pay for abortions. It is a rare win in the ongoing battle to secure reproductive rights.
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‘INAPPROPRIATE PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR COMMON IN THE HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY’
Yesterday, on the 60th anniversary of the integration of the military, the House Armed Services Committee held a the first hearing to review President Bill Clinton‘s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. One of the opponents to gays serving in the military that testified was Elaine Donnelly, the president of the Center for Military Readiness. Donnelly […]
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COOPERATING AGAINST VIOLENCE.
Ralph Blumenthal, who has done some fantastic investigative crime reporting, wrote an article in the Times this weekend examining the FBI’s efforts in the 1980s to break up a sect of the Sicilian Mafia by cooperating with the Italian government. Blumenthal wonders if this method could be used to break up some of the drug […]
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COMBATING COMBAT STRESS.
As a follow up to Kate‘s post on the Rand study about post-traumatic stress disorder I wanted to note a couple of things. The LA Times article about the study says that “screening techniques for stress disorders are vastly improved from previous wars.” That’s true because treatment for PTSD basically didn’t exist before Vietnam veterans […]
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SOME GOOD NEWS ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.
Dana rightly pointed out that affirmative action is under threat this fall in several states, but there is some good news. It’s not five states, as Dana said, it’s now four. Oklahoma withdrew it’s anti-affirmative action ballot initiative earlier this month due to a lack of signatures. In fact, the secretary of state found that […]
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PRISON SPENDING NEARLY EQUAL TO HIGHER ED SPENDING.
Yesterday Dana and Kate wrote about a NYT article on the increase in the prison population in the United States. Naturally, then this Inside Higher Ed piece about how prison spending is also up isn’t too surprising. What is interesting is how they compared prison spending to the amount spent on higher education by state. […]
