Michelle Goldberg, Author at The American Prospect

Proselytizing Discrimination

Are religious-right leaders like Rick Warren to blame for the rise of anti-gay laws in Africa?

Palin’s book is full of half-truths and self-congratulation. But for a woman aimed at 2012, such inaccuracies may not matter.

Health-insurance reform was supposed to end the cruelties our system inflicts on patients, not create them.

One of the few remaining rationales for maintaining the
occupation is protecting Afghan women. Is that enough?

Why is the execution of a potentially innocent man less scandalous than an affair?

A report on last year’s Gaza conflict has provoked outrage in Israel. But is the reaction justified?

How much should we read into Obama’s choice not to meet with the Dalai Lama?

Gender equality in developing countries may be the premier human-rights struggle of the 21st century — but first the rest of the world has to care.

It should come as no surprise that with the election of Barack Obama, the right has returned to a politics of racial resentment.

There is much to fear in the right’s comfort with radicalism, but little to envy.