Michael Paller discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's activities during World War II, which included writing the play No Exit, an expression of Sartre's existentialist philosophy. Tom Ross talks about the Tennessee Williams play The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. And Robert Bray comments on Williams's political views and the playwright's coming-out on national television in 1970.

Is divorce a danger to marriage, or one of its key benefits? How is divorce framed differently in the legal and cultural arenas? And when are legal decisions favorable to a social movement actually counterproductive? Ellen Ann Andersen investigates the constraints under which movement activists, including proponents of marriage equality, operate.