Op-Ed

It has been one of those life-affirming weeks. When something that has been a part of you for decades finally gets the attention and admiration you’ve felt it has …

Some time ago a woman invented Mother’s Day. Julia Ward Howe. She called on mothers to raise their sons well, to not be tools for war, as she …

It’s happening in Buenos Aires. It’s happening in Paris and in Athens. It’s even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the …

(Photo: lubright / Flickr)Imagine if a member of Team USA Basketball—let’s say Kobe Bryant—had been traveling to an international tournament only to be seized by a foreign government and …

This past Monday, the City of Chicago lost one of its greatest free speech activist, Chris Drew, who passed away on May 7, 2012. And though Drew finally lost his …

The last time I danced at a strip club in Manhattan, I paid an $80 “house fee” to work. I was shouted at for slouching in my seat and …

The 2012 election should be about what’s going on in America’s boardrooms, but Republicans would rather it be about America’s bedrooms. Mitt Romney says he’s against same-sex marriage; President …

{Editor’s note: Environment and Human Rights Advisory recently released a report on the human rights implications of hydraulic fracturing. The report’s author Tom Kerns, Executive Director of EHRA, and Tina Lynn Evans, who …

President Barack Obama delivering a speech at a conference at the Washington Hilton in April. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times)Edward Luce says what many of us …

This was going to be a different kind of column. My friend Jackie, through a mutual contact, arranged for me to interview 20-year-old Tyler Winkler, a gay student born …