Analysis
Two victories for civil liberties: more to come?
December 8, 2006News Analysis As 2006 winds down, two court victories were racked up for civil liberties against the Bush administration’s authoritarian policies. More such triumphs are likely. In Los Angeles, Ninth District Federal Judge Audrey Collins gave...
Read moreTexas GOP in disarray
December 8, 2006Commentary HOUSTON — In the wild, wild west of Texas politics, Republicans have set a new standard since the November election. In a bizarre twist following Tom DeLay’s reign of terror, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won a special...
Read moreSean Bell: What justice requires
December 8, 2006Commentary Fifty bullets. One bullet can kill a person — imagine what 50 did to 21-year-old Sean Bell and his two friends. What happened to these three unarmed young men on Nov. 25 in Queens, N.Y.,...
Read moreTexas GOP in disarray
December 3, 2006Commentary HOUSTON — In the wild, wild west of Texas politics, Republicans have set a new standard since the November election. In a bizarre twist following Tom DeLay’s reign of terror, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won a special...
Read morePlay reveals struggles of South Asian women
December 1, 2006NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In response to Eve Enseler’s feminist “Vagina Monologues,” a series of theatrical vignettes on the theme of contemporary women’s gender and social oppression, South Asian Sisters, a California-based group, developed “Yoni Ki...
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