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Karen Houppert

Karen Houppert, special correspondent for The Washington Post Magazine and frequent Nation contributor, is the author of Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military—for Better or Worse (Ballantine).

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KBR on Trial--At Last (US Wars and Military Action, War Profiteering)

 Five years after alerting authorities that she was gang-raped in Iraq, KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones will finally get her day in court

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KBR's Rape Problem (Crime, Society)

Three women contractors raped in Iraq testify before a Senate committee: why has the Justice Department failed to prosecute crimes like these?

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Another KBR Rape Case (US Wars and Military Action, War Profiteering)

In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones's highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.

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Curbing Abortion Rights (Reproductive Rights, Social Justice, Law, Society)

Newcomer Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito showed their true stripes by supporting a landmark late-term abortion ban.

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Who's Afraid of Gardasil? (Health and Disease, Healthcare Policy, Social Justice, Consumer Rights Issues and Organizing)

A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups.

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Voices of Protest (Social Justice, Peace Activism, US Wars and Military Action)

Peace activists and military families in DC Saturday were less angry than than resolute that the American people sent a clear signal in November to end the US occupation in Iraq.

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Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Movement? (Social Justice, Peace Activism)

Cindy Sheehan is more a symbol of the peace movement than its leader, a unifying force who seeks to bridge divisions among those who seek an end to war.

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Who's Next? (Youth, US Military, US Wars and Military Action, Society)

Military recruiters are targeting the nation's high schools and junior highs, seeking an early harvest of soldiers-to-be. Is your child next?

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The New Face of Protest? (Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation)

Antiwar activists cultivate military allies.

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Blogs

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Nobel Prize Winner "Abandons" Family
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Soldiers Who Steal
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Dispatch from War-Torn Baltimore
I live in Baltimore, Maryland. At the moment, that is slightly more dangerous than being an American soldier in Afghanistan. In Afganhistan...
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Breastfeeding and Blow Jobs
Yesterday was one of those days when, having read the paper you are quite certain it is full of misprints and mistakes--either that or you'...
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Motives Behind Virginia Tech Massacre Found! Lit Profs to Blame
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Hillary, What Have You Done for Me Lately?
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