A heart-wrenching, must-read piece. Our media covers the deaths of American soldiers fairly regularly — but we don’t often hear about the tens of thousands of Iraqis who we’ve murdered. Nine-year-old Ali was only one of them. And because we’re tired of hearing about Iraq — I’m tired of hearing about Iraq — I can’t [...]

Ezra says it perfectly, so I’m just going to quote him in full: This really seems to be the difference between liberals and neoconservatives on foreign policy, doesn’t it? Neocons envision a near-static population of terrorists, and prescribe an aggressive policy of killing them in order to rid the world of terrorism. Liberals see a dynamic [...]

My question for “feministe feedback” (thanks for adding this feature, by the way - I wouldn’t know where to ask this question, otherwise) has to do with some of the apparently false scare tactics certain factions of the anti-choice movement employ. My 14-year-old neighbor told me the yesterday, upon noticing my pro-choice bumper sticker, that [...]

1. A.C. Newman - On the Table 2. Interpol - C’mere 3. Silver Jews - Time Will Break the World 4. Darren Hanlon - Ends of the City 5. The Shins - Gone for Good 6. Minmae - Cold Steel Minders 7. Death Cab for Cutie - Someday You Will Be Loved 8. Mellowmen - Sunshine Shell 9. Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash 10. [...]

The WAM conference kicks off tomorrow evening, and I couldn’t be more excited. I’m currently praising Past Jill for not proposing a workshop or speaking on a panel; there are so many fantastic women to meet and learn from that I’m looking forward to shutting up for a weekend and just taking it all in. [...]

Perhaps we should be focusing on the fear-mongering and outright lying on behalf of anti-choicers. Amanda tackles the hypocrisy of Wright’s critics — the same people who attack him for repeating inaccurate messages about HIV/AIDS were the primary architects of Bush’s anti-science, deadly HIV/AIDS policies abroad. And while Wright’s conspiracy theories about where HIV came [...]

This week’s question: Are there feminist journals who publish pieces by men? Currently I’m dating a guy who is a pretty ardent feminist and has written a lot for campus newspapers. He is looking to shop some of his pieces around to different feminist online journals/publishing outlets. I feel absolutely terrible because every journal he’s [...]

This article makes me want to stab something. Registration is required, so I’ll excerpt most of it here. It’s one attorney’s take on what “woman lawyers” (am I the only one that hates when the word “woman” is used instead of “female” in these situations?) can learn from Hillary, and the moral of the story [...]

But women are fighting back: Women Thrive Worldwide has more info on the feminization of poverty. Women like Leticia and Betilde are doing the day-to-day work of surviving, and are helping other women in their communities do the same. But this is not an individual problem, and it shouldn’t be treated like one. World-wide [...]

This is disgusting: Up until just a few years ago, lawmakers would go “window shopping” for interns at the start of every legislative session. In a practice that went on for decades, the interns would be corraled in a Capitol newsstand, and legislators would take their pick. The hanky-panky even has its own lexicon: There’s the “Bear [...]