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).

Currently

  • KBR's Rape Problem

    April 17, 2008

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

  • Another KBR Rape Case

    April 3, 2008

    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.

2007

  • Curbing Abortion Rights

    April 18, 2007

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

  • Who's Afraid of Gardasil?

    March 8, 2007

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

  • Voices of Protest

    January 30, 2007

    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.

2006

  • Letters

    June 27, 2006 Subscribe

  • Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Movement?

    May 25, 2006

    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.

2005

  • Who's Next?

    August 25, 2005

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

  • The New Face of Protest?

    March 9, 2005

    Antiwar activists cultivate military allies.

  • Peace Activists in the War Room

    February 25, 2005

    A report from the antiwar movement's St. Louis summit.

2003

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