Death, Juries and Scalia Death, Juries and Scalia
Amid all the recent assaults on the Bill of Rights, including the latest trashing in the USA Patriot Act and the denial of habeas corpus to citizens, amid all this, in the span...
Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Corporate Human Rights Corporate Human Rights
With the Bush Administration too often feeling the pain of its corporate sponsors, and with the Enron scandal (so far) producing little political fallout or legislative change on ...
Jun 27, 2002 / David Corn
Letter From East Timor Letter From East Timor
Inside an old courthouse in the dusty tropical town of Dili, an exhibition documents the history of East Timor's resistance to Indonesian occupation. Next to a grainy black-and-wh...
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Wilson da Silva
Justice for Battered Women Justice for Battered Women
Victims of domestic violence defend their right to keep their children.
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Chris Lombardi
Black Unlike Me Black Unlike Me
Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselv...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John McMillian
Framed by the FBI Framed by the FBI
The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrong...
Jun 20, 2002 / James X. Dempsey
Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business
I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolu...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo
A Second Gilded Age A Second Gilded Age
Would it be too early to sense a sudden, uncovenanted shift against the corporate ethic, if ethic is the word? I can barely turn the page of a newspaper or magazine without strikin...
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Vitamin Giants: The Sequel Vitamin Giants: The Sequel
Price-fixing fines behind them, the firms are close to achieving a monopoly.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Jock Ferguson
Ashcroft [heart] Iran Ashcroft [heart] Iran
What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls went to school and young women went to college in places where now they are used as household drudges an...
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt