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Hoping to keep his party from being pegged as Earth bashers, Newt Gingrich, who once interrupted a day of foreign-aid budget cutting in the House to ask his fellow Republicans to restore money to protect the African elephant, has established a Republican Task Force on the Environment, manned by...
Paradoxically, this liberationist dynamic has captured several of the most important social movements of our day. For instance, in his Saint Foucault, David Halperin argues that the contemporary gay rights movement cannot promote "emancipation" as such, but only "resistance" to the dominant norms of American culture. Such resistance aims not...
The Senate bill, having been emasculated by moderates, does not include provisions for either one of these two crucial reforms. The Senate bill grants states the discretion to enact such reforms on their own, but the past policies of states such as New York, whose generous benefits have encouraged only...
So it's ironic that Republicans are spearheading the drive to send welfare mothers into the workplace, no matter how lowly the work, no matter that the child is still in diapers, and--until moderates forced some into the bill--without more funding for child care. Under the current proposal...
Jamison was not, in the paradoxical jargon of psychiatry, a "successful" suicide. But it took years for her to accept the fact that she had to stay on medication. What really saved her life, she says, was psychotherapy. In an age that believes drugs alone can defeat disease, Jamison remains...