Russia's leading gay activist said Wednesday that he was disappointed that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with an outspoken foe of gay rights during her two-day trip to Russia and did not decry homophobia in the country. Clinton attended a ceremony unveiling a statue of Walt ...

Hillary Clinton cut the ribbon to unveil a statue of American poet and gay icon Walt Whitman in Moscow on Wednesday, in a ceremony accompanied by the Russian capital's homophobic mayor, Yury Luzhkov. Luzhkov has called gay people "satanic" and has banned gay pride parades in Moscow on public safety and morality grounds. But he praised Whitman, whose poetry ...

Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to PragmatismBy William H. GoetzmannBasic, 399 pages, $35 In 1851, in the forests of Long Island, Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews founded a community dedicated to individualism and free love. They named it Modern Times and it flowered, for a period, attracting an array of converts to match the ...

7:30 a.m. Geraldine Ferraro and Arianna Huffington moderate a panel discussion on the 2008 Presidential Elections sponsored by New York Women in Communication. At The New York Times Building, fifteenth floor, 620 Eighth Avenue. 8 a.m. Comptroller Bill Thompson joins Blockbuster C.E.O. James Keyes to discuss "C.E.O. pay and market regulation" at The ...