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Friday News Wrap Up, July 18

Kelly McCartney — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:12:44 -0500

This week in the War on Terror: A federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. can, in fact, hold detainees indefinitely if they are considered to be enemy combatants.

No News Is Good News... At Least for Today

Diana Cage — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:22:25 -0500

The Bush Administration wants to allow recipients of federal aid to hire individuals opposed to abortion and birth control services.

Stepping Out

Gloria Bigelow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:41:50 -0500

Three little skippy things to the right.

It’s Hard Being a Lesbian Activist...

Tania Katan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:41:12 -0500

...in East Hampton, but someone has to do it! (Part 1)

The Hampton Jitney. Doesn’t it sound like a good time?

Friday News Wrap Up, July 11

Kelly McCartney — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:44:26 -0500

It has been a fairly dark week for believers in righteousness.

FISA and Why You Care

Diana Cage — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:12:32 -0500

FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was originally passed in 1978 and designed to keep the government from wiretapping citizens on a whim.

Memory: How Parents Divorce

Lenelle Moïse — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:16:38 -0500

When it is summer, when it is Sunday and you are five years old and your storybooks are too predictable and the TV is damaged/decorative and the radio only offers piercing chords of whistling cracks and your favorite colors in the crayon box (red, green, purple) are left at school or broken, sometimes you are quite bored with talking to yourself so you listen to your father's sweet phone voice calling someone sweetheart (not you) in the other room.

Survival of the Crappiest: Part 2

Tania Katan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:51:15 -0500

The garage sale is off to a rocky start. It's 6 a.m., the time my brother Paul said he would meet me at Mom's house. He's not here.