Politics
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On the Record: the Right’s Document Fetish
Academics, especially those in the humanities, cannot escape bad news. We hear of fresh budget cuts on a weekly basis. In the last few weeks...
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Breaking News: Osama Bin Laden is Dead
The man known as Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, is dead. Last night President Obama confirmed that Bin Laden was shot to death...
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Rock Struck: Obama and the Hard Place of Paper
After noise and nonsense from the political right, the President of the United States, had to show his papers. The fact of a black man...
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WISCONSIN: Why It Matters
By Joy Schulman I arrived in Madison in September 1969 to begin my junior year at the University of Wisconsin. Moving from Newark, New Jersey,...
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Between Love and Duty
By Rachel Broadwater On March 10, 2011 activist Quannell X spearheaded a rally in connection to the brutal gang rape of an 11-year-old Latina girl...
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Reproductive Tourism
A recent article in the New York Times describes the discovery of birth houses in San Gabriel, California, where “relatively wealthy” Chinese women were stealthily...
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Women in (Post) Revolutionary Egypt
By Ebony E.A. Coletu The post-revolutionary society contains a warning in its name. Is the laborious work of political reconstruction part of the revolution or...
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Clarity (On Clarence Thomas and the Worth of Black Life)
Yesterday, my dad sent me an article from Slate Magazine about a Supreme Court decision written by Clarence Thomas that effectively argued that a black man,...
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Going Postal: The Right’s Sleight of Hand
Most of us remember the widespread atmosphere of optimism that followed Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Many also remember statements from some groups on...
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Sixty-two hours in Cairo
By Adam John Waterman For Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff The history of civilization which began in Egypt was not so much a matter of...
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Regrets: Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro
We regret the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, who died on Saturday, 24 March, at the age of 75. In 1984, Congresswoman Ferraro made history when,...
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Up a Tree
All things being equal (which they rarely are), U.S. military intervention in Libya should pay off to the decided advantage of this North African nation’s...
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Special Message from the Editors: Welcome, Dr. Tamura Lomax
The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...
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Where Are the Radicals?: Islam(ophobia) and Black Urban Politics
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Who is it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? If the last decade is any harbinger...
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The Wrong One, Let In
On Friday, March 4th, Connecticut police finally arrested the infamous “East Coast Rapist.” Now known as 39-year old unemployed truck driver Aaron H. Thomas, the...
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Where Are We?
It is even past my bed time at 3 o’clock, Thursday morning, 10 March 2011. But if we’re reading this right, we all have miles...
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A World of Contradictions
Since security forces and militia loyal to Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi attacked groups of peaceful protestors on February 17th, widespread bloodshed, disappearances, fear and anger...
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What to Do When God Hates You: A Lordeian Intervention in the Face of the Westboro Case
Last week the United States Supreme Court voted eight to one in favor of a definition of free speech that includes hate speech on what...