Frank Kameny, who at the age of 86 died of apparently natural causes in his Washington, D.C. home yesterday, qualified as a genuine American hero. He is to the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual

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The standing ovation given by the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week to Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ call to grant full U.N. membership to an

Are you surprised that a right-wing tool like Ann Coulter is a big fan of the Grateful Dead? You shouldn’t be. The “paradigm shift” of American culture in the 1970s – the

Far from being a benign and marginal experiment to enhance interrogation techniques, the CIA’s Operation MK-Ultra that dispensed massive amounts of the psychedelic drug, Lysergic Acid

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