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Ear to the Ground: The Evergreen State Needs One Vote for Marriage Equality

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Cartoons: Liberty Detained

Ear to the Ground: Israelis Clash in a Struggle of Orthodoxy

Reports: The Two Faces of China

Cartoons: Jackie O Called MLK a ‘Phony’

Reports: The Real Dr. King: An Extremist for Justice

Ear to the Ground: Irony in Norway

Ear to the Ground: Controversy Over Rosa Parks Account of a ‘Near-Rape’

Reports: Gone With the Papers

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Religious Groups Exempt From Gay Rights Legislation

Arts and Culture: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Is Sprung From Jail

Ear to the Ground: Gay Jurist’s Legitimacy in Prop. 8 Decision Is Upheld

Ear to the Ground: FBI Makes It Easier to Pry

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Cartoons: Patriot Act Renewal

Arts and Culture: Civilization and Its Malcontents

Reports: 50 Years of Freedom

Reports: Three Strikes and Civil Rights

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Arts and Culture: The Reinvention of Malcolm X

Reports: The Hooey King

Reports: Haley Barbour’s Civil Rights Airbrush

Ear to the Ground: Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Draws Near

Reports: Resistance, Acquiescence and My Friend J. Edgar Hoover

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Times Condemns Obama Detainee Policy

Reports: Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses

Cartoons: Take America Back

Cartoons: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Dream Act

Reports: Haley Barbour’s Ridiculous Story

Reports: Missing ‘Big Labor’

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Is Not Martin Luther King Jr.

Ear to the Ground: The Glenn Beck-Sarah Palin Rally to Un-Pervert MLK

Reports: Reason Beats Hate in Prop. 8 Ruling

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Urges Resumption of Gay Marriages

Reports: Picking the Wrong Education Fight

Reports: The Soul Mates Bork and Paul

Ear to the Ground: The Dictatorship That Cried Wolf

Reports: Singing Lena Horne’s Praises

Reports: Why We Won’t Wait

Ear to the Ground: Gays Get Hospital Visitation Rights

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Being Al Sharpton

Reports: So Much for a ‘Post-Racial’ America

Reports: RFK and the Civil Rights Movement

Truthdig Podcast: RFK and the Civil Rights Movement

Ear to the Ground: Civil Rights Activist Found Dead

Ear to the Ground: ACLU Sues School for Nixing Prom in Dispute With Lesbian Student

Ear to the Ground: Muslim Women Protest Through Prayer at D.C. Mosque

Reports: The Tea Party Movement Is a National Embarrassment

Reports: The GOP’s Double Standard on Terror Trials

Reports: Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian

Ear to the Ground: Cindy McCain Comes Out in Support of Gay Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Vote Coming Soon in N.J. Senate

Ear to the Ground: Walking for Legalization

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Moves One Step Closer to Reality in D.C.

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Senate Votes Against Same-Sex Marriage Bill

Ear to the Ground: Washington’s Black Community Grapples with Gay Marriage Issue

Arts and Culture: Freedom’s Fight: Part II

Ear to the Ground: Lou Dobbs for President?

Arts and Culture: Top Writer-Director Breaks With Scientology Over Proposition 8

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Green Jobs Adviser Gives In to the Smears

Arts and Culture: Ben & Jerry’s Rolls Out Gay Marriage-Themed Ice Cream

A/V Booth: Wis. Same-Sex Couples Make Domestic Partnership Official

A/V Booth: Fighting for the White Man

Cartoons: The Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Episcopal Church Making Progress on LGBT Rights

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Hits a Snag in Maine

Ear to the Ground: Court Overturns India’s Gay Sex Ban

Ear to the Ground: Obama Comes Closer to Meddling

Arts and Culture: MLK to Get the Spielberg Treatment

Ear to the Ground: The Fierce Urgency of Whenever

Ear to the Ground: Again With the Military Tribunals

Reports: Pete Seeger Carries Us On

Ear to the Ground: Same-Sex Marriage Legalized in Vermont

Ear to the Ground: Iowa Is 3rd State to Recognize Gay Marriage

A/V Booth: You Got Obama. What Now?

Reports: A Long Train Ride

Reports: Still Dreaming After All These Years

Ear to the Ground: Connecticut Same-Sex Couples Begin to Wed

Reports: From LBJ to BHO

A/V Booth: Jesse Jackson: ‘We Are a Better America Today’

Reports: Morning Again in America

Reports: A Week in the ‘Real America’

A/V Booth: Logic Lessons With Sarah Palin: Gay Marriage Edition

Reports: Fueling the Fire of Real Change

Reports: A Moment in History

Cartoons: Backstage at the Democratic National Convention

Ear to the Ground: Jesse Helms Dead at 86

A/V Booth: McCain Cornered by the Elephant in Ellen’s Room

Ear to the Ground: Another Reason Not to Vote for McCain

Arts and Culture: Bill Boyarsky on the Inimitable Willie Brown

Ear to the Ground: Southern Black Voters Split Between Obama and Clinton

Reports: United by Hate

Ear to the Ground: Thousands March on Jena

Bazaar: United We Serve: National Service and the Future of Citizenship

Ear to the Ground: Cleared Detainees Stuck in Gitmo Limbo

Ear to the Ground: The Sharpton Primary

Ear to the Ground: Judge OK’s Student Gay Rights Club

Ear to the Ground: ‘Super Union’ Merger in the Works

Ear to the Ground: Judge Rules for Web Freedom

Ear to the Ground: Spy on the Government

Reports: When They Came for the Homosexuals…

Ear to the Ground: Obama, Clinton Cross Paths in Selma

Ear to the Ground: Women’s Rights Protesters Arrested in Iran

Ear to the Ground: Genealogists Uncover Al Sharpton-Strom Thurmond Connection

A/V Booth: Podcast: Outsports on Gay Athletes, Hardaway’s Homophobia and More

Ear to the Ground: One State at a Time

Ear to the Ground: When Gay Sheep and the Blogosphere Collide

Ear to the Ground: Public Officials Pledge to Eliminate Gay Marriage Ban

Ear to the Ground: Bush to Seek Warrants for Wiretaps

Ear to the Ground: Journalists and Civilians Now Vulnerable to Military Justice

Reports: Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘A Society Gone Mad on War’

A/V Booth: The Story of Detainee ISN 940

Ear to the Ground: Conservative Rabbis Issue Gay-Friendly Ruling

Reports: Larry Gross: Abe Rosenthal’s Reign of Homophobia at The New York Times

Ear to the Ground: William Sloane Coffin (1924-2006)

Ear to the Ground: William F. Buckley: Bush Will Be Judged on “Failed” Iraq War

Ear to the Ground: Court OKs Hallucinogenic Tea

Ear to the Ground: Judge Strikes Down Md. Ban on Gay Marriages

Reports: Gore for President?

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