Ending Prostitution 'Central' to Ending AIDS, US Tells Supreme Court

by Melissa Gira Grant, The Nation, USA - On the steps of the Supreme Court Sunday morning, shortly before arguments began on the constitutionality of compelling aid recipients to oppose prostitution, a dozen or so students in marigold hooded sweatshirts...

Posted by intern on April 24, 2013 12:01 PM

Gun Control? Dream On

by Katha Pollitt, The Nation, USA - Despite recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, Americans' support for increased gun control remains depressingly low....

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on August 10, 2012 10:34 AM

Modern Slavery

by Shannon Young, WINGS, Canada - Trafficked persons, foreign & domestic, are enslaved in enterprises from nail salons to farms, homes, & prostitution. Some are traded along with drugs & guns....

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on July 17, 2012 6:40 AM

Revolutionary Plots

by Rebecca Solnit, Orion, USA - Urban agriculture is producing a lot more than food....

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on July 9, 2012 3:39 AM

The Media’s True Lies

by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, USA - The media drumbeat against Iran is a disgrace, but it tells us that the attack can’t be too far away. Iran is not America’s worst enemy. Our worst enemies are right here,...

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on February 29, 2012 12:37 AM

How Birth Control And Abortion Became Politicized

by Jill Lepore, NPR, USA - The first birth control clinic in the United States opened in 1916. It was operated by Margaret Sanger, who started the clinic after becoming outraged that she couldn't give her patients — poor women...

Posted by intern on November 9, 2011 1:04 PM