Can Labor Revive the American Dream?, The Nation, January 26, 2009: what's at stake in the business lobby's campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act
On a Mission from God (with Chip Berlet), In These Times, October 27, 2008: examining Sarah Palin's ties to the Christian Right
Labor's Growing Pains, The Nation, June 26, 2008: SEIU, the nation's largest union, battles the California Nurses and dissidents in its own ranks
Workers Memorial Day, The Nation, April 30, 2008: how the Bush administration has gutted OSHA and cost workers' lives
The Culture War Descends on Columbia, The Nation, October 26, 2007: the Ivy League is ground zero for David Horowitz's "Islamofascism Awareness Week"
At War with Desire, Women's Review of Books, May/June 2007: a review of Tanya Erzen's Straight to Jesus, on the ex-gay movement
Liar, Liar: The New Propaganda War Against Unions, in New Labor Forum, Winter 2007: on a new corporate campaign targeting the labor movement
Fairy Tale Failure, American Prospect, July 5, 2006: Uganda, once a showcase for abstinence ideology, has become its victim (if you're not an AmProspect subscriber, click here for the full text)
Posts from the barricades: January 2006 March for Life in the Village Voice and the Nation; labor activists and gay Republicans at the September 2004 Republican National Convention in the Nation; January 2003 anti-war march in the Village Voice; and the October 2002 anti-war march in the Village Voice.
"The Christian Right and the Jewish Left," Jewish Currents, July/August, 2005
"Just Say Não," The Nation, May 30, 2005: Brazil defies Bush administration moralizing
"Lessons from the Christian Right," an essay in What We Do Now, edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians (Melville House, December 2004): what progressives can learn from how the Christian right built power
"The Bush AIDS Machine," The Nation, December 2, 2004: what four more years means for AIDS
"Onward Christian Soldiers," The Nation, July 5, 2004: the movement against gay marriage
"The Jewish Divide on Israel," The Nation, June 24, 2004: American Jews mobilize for peace and face repression
"Political Science," POZ, January 2004: the Christian right’s assault on science
"Globalize the Intifada," an essay in Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, edited by Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon (Grove, October 2003): a wave of activism opposing the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
"A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom," The Nation, January 6, 2003: the birth of the antiwar movement
"Dangerous Council," POZ, November 2002: social conservatives shape Bush AIDS policy
"This City Is Ours," an essay in From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization, edited by Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk (Verso, August 2002): social change organizing during the Rudy Giuliani years
"Keepers of the Flame," The Village Voice, January 29, 2002: the new anarchism
"The Philadelphia Story," POZ, November 2001: AIDS activism emerges from Philadelphia’s poorest communities