Sin Map: 7 Deadly Sins Mapped Across U.S.
"...A team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust)."...
"...A team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust)."...
Sophie Keller | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
It is never too late to start something new, whether you're 75 and want to take up the piano, 55 and are beginning a new profession or 27 and think th...
Alex Geana | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
40 Years after Stonewall, we have many more rights to achieve, the most important being gay marriage, equality, and making sure that every gay person does in fact feel comfortable coming out.
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.
Jason Mannino | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
Love is not something for which we can fight. Fortunately, love is not tangible. It cannot be given or taken away by government legislation.
nytimes.com | BENEDICT CAREY | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
"I have a new client, a laid-off lawyer, who's commuting in every day -- to his Starbucks," said Robert C. Chope, a professor of counseling at San Fra...
Bill Allen | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Just yards from where slaves were auctioned and on the steps of a building constructed with slave labor, an African-American took the oath of office in a peaceful passage of power.
Karen Bass | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Just as Martin Luther King's dream could not have endured if it was his alone, President Obama's hope and promise can't endure if we don't help shoulder the burden.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.
Jane Devin | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living
I've lived dangerously, with no health insurance, no benefits, and precarious hours. Until now, I've harbored something close to shame over my one-ply lifestyle, but no more.
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Who is this President Obama? He spoke beautifully! He said things didn't just make sense, they were highly intelligent! He was magnanimous in victory!
Linda Kulman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
In assuming ownership of Palin's accomplishments, no matter how thin, he characterized her as an old-fashioned help meet -- you know, the little woman who stands behind every great man.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
I don't know what you all were doing last Saturday at 3pm, but me? I was surrounded by hundreds of half-naked men wearing teeny little bikini briefs, ...
Kate Bornstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
Exactly what special perks are transgender kids in Juvenile Detention really getting? They get to wear prison uniforms, underwear and hairstyles appropriate to the gender they believe themselves to be.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living
Marriage isn't anybody's right. No one has a right to gay marriage, it's not in the Constitution. So under the law, there's no given right. The only time the "right" comes up is when someone tries to take it away.
Mary Lyon | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
I've been deeply ashamed of my country's pursuit of the crooked path extolled by the GOP. My distress arises from the decline of sensible and adult governance, truly objective and honest bipartisanship, and an increase in flat-out money-grubbing
Wired | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living