Hope and Change come to the Hilltop
The meaning of Clara and Vail's victory
Reflecting on Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13)’s sweeping victory in the GUSA Executive election, I can’t help but think of a similarly successful campaign waged just four years ago by the current occupant of the White House. The savvy use of social media, the left-leaning rhetoric, the brilliant marketing strategy and
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Thinking Ethically
In posthumous release, Judt reflects on his life and the role of the public intellectual
Last October, during a warm Yom Kippur weekend, I took a stroll down to Occupy Wall Street. For me, the Saturday-morning field trip was an organizer’s self-indulgence; as a DC human rights advocate, I came to learn, but largely to ogle in bewilderment at Occupy’s peculiar community of anarcho-syndicalists, disillusioned college professors, anti-imperialists, and seasoned AFL-CIO
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Libertarians and the Left
The possibilities and limitations of building an alliance
In my one and only brief foray into electoral politics, I spent the summer of 2008 volunteering for Darcy Burner, who was running for Congress as a Democrat. Because of the party structure, this also entailed going door-to-door for then-presidential candidate Obama and the rest of the Democratic ticket. It was an odd situation; I was
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No Girls Allowed: Women and the priesthood in the Catholic Church
The roots and future of the Church's ordination policy
Since the Obama administration’s late January decision to mandate that Catholic hospitals offer birth control coverage, that long standing and perhaps original American political issue is back under the national spotlight—religious freedom. Fierce debates have emerged at the nation’s oldest Catholic university, where a group of law professors expressed support of the mandate and law student Sandra
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Editorials
Sexist Ordination Policy Needs to Go
In the wake of a far-reaching sexual abuse scandal and subsequent cover-up, the insular nature of the Catholic Church has come under increased scrutiny. Among many issues threatening the credibility of the Church as an institution dedicated to social justice, the question of female ordination highlights the reactionary and often bigoted disposition of the Church. The
Apr 21, 2012 18:08
Commentary
The War on Women Continues
It’s one of the tragedies of contemporary American politics— women’s health issues are never just about women or their health. This unfortunate reality has seldom been more visible than in recent weeks, with conservative religious institutions’ reaction to the Obama administration’s decision that the Affordable Care Act will mandate that contraceptives be covered by all
Apr 21, 2012 18:25
Interviews
Interview with Lorri Jean
Lorri L. Jean (LAW ’82) is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. She was the lead plaintiff in Gay Rights Coalition of Georgetown University Law Center v. Georgetown University, a landmark federal lawsuit that compelled the University to give the gay rights group equitable access to benefits as a student group because of the
Apr 25, 2012 12:46
Reviews
William Stuntz’s Criminal Injustice
William J. Stuntz was dying as he composed The Collapse of American Criminal Justice. Diagnosed with cancer and resisting mind-altering pain medication, he feverishly worked to complete the manuscript before expiring in March
Apr 19, 2012 16:42
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Interview with Lorri Jean
LGBT rights advocate
Lorri L. Jean (LAW ’82) is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. She was the lead plaintiff in Gay Rights Coalition of Georgetown University Law Center v. Georgetown University, a landmark federal lawsuit that compelled the University to give the gay rights group equitable access to benefits as a student group because of the sexual orientation protections of the D.C. Human Rights Act.
She now serves as CEO of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, the world’s largest LGBT organization with more than 300 full time employees serving over a quarter million people each year, a position she has held since 1993 with a short break while serving as executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 2001 to 2003. Before 1993, Ms. Jean spent ten years as an attorney for FEMA, where she was the highest-ranking openly gay or lesbian person in the federal government until her retirement from government office.
The War on Women Continues
Patriarchy and right wing myths fuel debate over contraception mandate
It’s one of the tragedies of contemporary American politics— women’s health issues are never just about women or their health. This unfortunate reality has seldom been more visible than in recent weeks, with conservative religious institutions’ reaction to the Obama administration’s decision that the Affordable Care Act will mandate that contraceptives be covered by all health insurance policies.
Sexist Ordination Policy Needs to Go
In the wake of a far-reaching sexual abuse scandal and subsequent cover-up, the insular nature of the Catholic Church has come under increased scrutiny. Among many issues threatening the credibility of the Church as an institution dedicated to social justice, the question of female ordination highlights the reactionary and often bigoted disposition of the Church. The simple truth is that barring women from service as priests is a sexist policy—an insistence on tradition that hinders the viability of the Church in more ways than one. (more…)
William Stuntz’s Criminal Injustice
A conservative legal scholar comes to radical conclusions
William J. Stuntz was dying as he composed The Collapse of American Criminal Justice. Diagnosed with cancer and resisting mind-altering pain medication, he feverishly worked to complete the manuscript before expiring in March 2011.
Student debt bubble should no longer be ignored
America’s bubble economy is on the verge of another crisis. At a total of $870 billion, the student debt bubble puts the housing bubble to shame and has already surpassed the nation’s collective $693 billion credit card balance. One doesn’t have to be one of the millions of students and graduates submerged in debt to recognize that this bubble is a ticking time bomb for the entire economy. As for the students who have amassed such onerous loans—their financial future is bleak.
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