monthly review

The initial CIO surge almost seventy years ago benefited from a pro-union or neutral policy in the White House and a (temporary) reversal of historically anti-union law in Congress, through Section 7a of the National Labor Relations Act. ..

end late-term abortion debate

Unconstitutional House panel should kill bill that poses danger to women and physicians... NO matter how they phrase it, anti-abortion advocates efforts to craft bill banning so-called partial-birth abortions fail to pass muster. ..

ending prison rape

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), sponsored by a bipartisan congressional coalition, was passed unanimously by both the House and Senate.  ... Bush signed the bill, on September 4, 2003, anti-rape advocates believed that an important milestone had been passed. . ..

exposit

None of the anti-gay-marriage protestors who set up shop outside the Massachusetts state house earlier this year carried signs or chanted slogans having to do with taxes: the polemic 'God hates fags,' a perennial favorite of the protestors, relies not on Congressional Budget Office findings,..

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