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GETTING ORGANIZED

Organizational neurosis? Welcome to my world

BY ISAAC PRILLELTENSKY

Only 0.000000000000001 percent of the world’s population could legitimately claim that they are organized: my aunt Eusebia and I. 1373666429
GAY RIGHTS

Marriage equality a step to end bigotry toward gays

BY JOSÉ GABILONDO

You’d never accuse the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, of liberal activism. Not even now. This year’s decisions made it easier for states to discriminate in voting practices, harder for employees to sue their bosses for discrimination, and easier for property owners to resist government takings for public ends. 1373666314
NEW YORK

New York’s sex-scandal-scarred candidates

BY GAIL COLLINS

Positive aspects of New York City’s Weiner-Spitzer summer: 1373666490
ZIMMERMAN TRIAL

Zimmerman trial: Man carrying loaded handgun shoots and kills unarmed teen

BY ROBERTO MARTINEZ

I am troubled with what I perceive to be the failure to focus on the obvious in the death of the teenage boy in the trial of George Zimmerman.
TRIALS

Zimmerman case: Take TV cameras out of courtrooms

BY KATHLEEN PARKER

As a courtroom junkie since my early reporting days, it is at great personal sacrifice that I suggest the following: It may be time to get television cameras out of the courtroom.
PEACE PROCESS

Israeli peace process on hold

BY MICHAEL GERSON

The Green Line — across which generations of Israelis and Palestinians have fought and haggled — was given its name because the United Nations mediator, Ralph Bunche, used a green pencil to draw the cease-fire boundary in 1949. In the Middle East, arbitrary markings can assume the geographic seriousness of mountain ranges.
POLITICAL DEBATE

The slavery-abortion analogy

BY JOY-ANN REID

On Tuesday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee traveled to Texas, where the debate over an extremely restrictive — and more than likely unconstitutional — anti-abortion bill raged on this week. Huckabee came flanked by more than 3,000 anti-abortion protesters, and armed with a by now familiar message: Abortion is like slavery, and anti-abortion activists are the modern-day equivalent of abolitionists.