Sociologists Neal Caren and Sarah Gaby of UNC-Chapel Hill crunch the data on #OWS’s spread on Facebook.
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The NYPD: A Movement’s Best Friend
Occupy Wall Street’s confrontations with police and politicians have only fueled the protest’s growth.
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Must-See OWS Clip
This you gotta see. Really. …in which Alec Baldwin very nicely talks with an Occupy Wall Street whacko and explains that what we really need is an active SEC, not one that’s in the pocket of the banks.
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Marry Me
Yesterday the Washington Post published a nice summary of the various federal lawsuits underway in the court battles over same-sex marriage, a piece occasioned by a panel at the College of William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law. The panel, according to reporter Robert Barnes, was debating whether the government’s political […]
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Can Tammy Baldwin Win?
Over at TheAtlantic.com, I look into the question of whether openly lesbian Tammy Baldwin can become Wisconsin’s senator. Pop quiz: What’s the ” L-word” that’s likely to hurt her most? Hint: It’s not this one. Here’s an excerpt: In 1998, Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the U.S. Congress […]
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More on the Playboy Club
Here’s a follow-up to my mini-review last week of NBC’s The Playboy Club: a Daily Beast article, “My Mom’s Life as a Playboy Bunny,” by Susanna Spier. Spier interviews her mother about what things were really like. Was Hugh Hefner’s comment — that bunnies could be anything they wanted to be — accurate? Ha. We […]
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Reading Between the Rights
Nearly 50 years after Griswold v. Connecticut, conservatives think the Constitution protects your privacy.
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Segregation Nation
Omaha’s radical attempt at school integration shows how beneficial diversity can be — and how hard it can be to sustain.
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Muslims and Children: Menaces to Society
Monica Potts, Adam Serwer, and Pema Levy discuss the Peter King hearings and fetal-pain laws.
