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Category: American Society
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David Chura knows what it’s like to teach under less-than-ideal conditions, and he knows why teachers continue to do so.
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On the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which is also the seventh anniversary of marriage equality in Massachusetts, Michael Bronski discusses the struggle for personal freedom for LGBT people.
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It’s been seven years since the first marriage licenses were handed out to same-sex couples in Massachusetts. Amie Klempnauer Miller, Nancy Polikoff, and Karen Kahn talk about what has changed and what challenges lie ahead.
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Read an excerpt from Michael Bronski’s new book, A Queer History of the United States.
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This week, the Supreme Court declined to hear Doe v. Silsbee Independent School District, a case in which a cheerleader was kicked off her squad when she refused to cheer for the boy she said raped her.
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Amy Alexander looks at the danger journalists face when they cover “hot spots” of uprisings and protests.
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Judge Nancy Gertner discusses her life as a defense lawyer, what it meant to her to defend women, and the different paths Gertner and Justice Sotomayor took to becoming judges.
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On sale today: Nancy Gertner’s In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate.
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The integration of the Major Leagues pulled fans away from the once-thriving Negro Leagues.
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A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies shows that the US is awash in wealth: we’ve just shifted our tax burden to those with less of it.
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