Making 34 Million Friends Making 34 Million Friends
The night after the Bush Administration announced its refusal to grant the United Nations Population Fund $34 million dollars, Jane Roberts was so outraged she couldn't sleep.
Nov 12, 2002 / Feature / Emily Biuso
Palestine Activism Spammed Palestine Activism Spammed
Abby Aguirre's October 10, 2002, web-only piece on e-mail harassment of Palestinian activists inspired many letters to the edito
Nov 7, 2002 / Our Readers
Legal Jeopardy Legal Jeopardy
The military needs more lawyers. More accurately, the Defense Department wants military recruiters to recruit law students on campus and through official channels.
Oct 17, 2002 / Kristin Eliasberg
Peace Gets a Chance Peace Gets a Chance
"You look beautiful," shouted more than one speaker to the crowd that gathered in New York's Central Park on Sunday, October 6, to protest George W.
Oct 10, 2002 / Liza Featherstone
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
Out in the countryside is where you'll find America's true leaders--the gutsy, scrappy, sometimes scruffy and always ingenious grassroots agitators and organizers who go right ...
Oct 10, 2002 / Jim Hightower
A Union on the Line A Union on the Line
With its future at stake, the ILWU will not go down without a fight.
Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / David Bacon
October Surprises October Surprises
October surprises are built into our system, since elections come in November. Cliffhanger movies in Hollywood's old days could not have staged it better.
Oct 3, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Slut Patrol Slut Patrol
In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women's menstrual periods. We haven't come to that, but anyone who thinks women's reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in...
Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Antiwar Activism Antiwar Activism
The political establishment is not united behind the Bush Administration's policy of forced "regime change" in Iraq. The rest of the world, and a good part of the American publ...
Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
he Powers That Be constantly try to keep the progressive majority divided: workers against environmentalists, enviros against farmers, farmers against consumers, consumers agai...
Sep 12, 2002 / Jim Hightower