Media Project Op-Ed

July 17, 2001

Fifty years ago this month, a group of gay men in Los Angeles put the finishing touches on a plan for a new organization called the Mattachine Society.read more

July 12, 2001

Don't be misled. Genetically engineered food is not an answer to world hunger.read more

July 11, 2001

Slobodan Milosevic's prosecution is a step forward for international human rights and for democracy in Serbia.

When the chief prosecutor at the U.N.read more

July 11, 2001

Congress can help thousands of America's undocumented farm workers emerge from the shadows of fear and abuse.read more

July 10, 2001

My father faces deportation.

Although the U.S.read more

July 6, 2001

July 11 is World Population Day.

We ought to use this day to address our nation's policies that threaten reproductive rights, the environment and our world health, instead of blaming the planet's problems on population growth.

Americans tend to believe that overpopulation in the Third World is the major cause of poverty and environmental degradation.read more

July 5, 2001

(Editor's Note: Luz Suarez is a pseudonym.read more

June 28, 2001

First the bad news. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people all over the world are tortured and abused, often at the hands of their own governments and communities.

In Chicago, a gay man arrested after an altercation with his landlord in February 2000, reported that he was severely abused by police, who "handcuffed him by his elbows to a hook on the wall.read more

June 27, 2001

The Bush administration's plan to increase Pentagon spending by $33 billion next year is unjustifiable.

Bush had pledged to hold off on major increases in military spending until after Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld completes his review of U.S.read more

June 27, 2001

The Bush administration is resuscitating the careers of U.S.read more

June 26, 2001

George W. Bush was stunned last month when his staff informed him at a briefing that the United States possessed a large nuclear arsenal.read more

June 21, 2001

While kids in the United States are enjoying their summer vacations, many children around the world are not so lucky.read more

June 21, 2001

In my 20 years of teaching inner-city kids, I've worked with all kinds of fifth graders: from homeless kids to middle-class children, from immigrants who don't speak English to 11-year-olds reading at a high-school level.read more

June 20, 2001

At the age of 47, my only direct experience with the U.S.read more

June 18, 2001

There's an ironic contrast in recent news from Washington: Just as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported dramatic increases in income disparities, President Bush signed a tax bill guaranteed to make these disparities worse.read more