The Silencing of Carlos Delgado The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
The New York Mets' squelching of first baseman Carlos Delgado's longstanding protest of the war in Iraq during the seventh-inning stretch speaks volumes about how the rules of the ...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper? Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper?
Under pressure from Wall Street, newspaper journalism is being frog-marched out of the media marketplace. And once it's gone, how will we know anything?
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Ban Torture or Protect Torturers? Ban Torture or Protect Torturers?
A showdown looms in Congress this week over two competing measures involving bedrock human and legal rights: John McCain's legislation to ban all forms of torture and Lindsey Graha...
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
AIDS Movement Seizes Control AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a b...
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Mark Gevisser
The Iraq Index The Iraq Index
The tragedy that is Iraq can never be told in numbers alone, but the hard facts--every loss, every life, every dollar--only strengthen the arguments against this brutal war.
Dec 1, 2005 / Feature / John S. Friedman
Overcoming Apartheid Overcoming Apartheid
Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a fa...
Dec 1, 2005 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol
Titans of Trash Titans of Trash
Gas-guzzling SUVs take a lot of blame, but landfills make stealthy stealthy contributions to climate change. While they should be developing innovative waste disposal strategies, c...
Nov 30, 2005 / Feature / Heather Rogers
Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home? Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home?
Progressive groups that mobilized for the 2004 elections are now dismissed as failures. But though they were unable to defeat Bush, grassroots activists are creating waves across t...
Nov 30, 2005 / Feature / Chris Hayes
The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
As the clock ticks down to former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williiams's scheduled execution on December 13, football great Jim Brown is helping lead the fight to convince Governor...
Nov 29, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Eggs vs Ethics in Stem Cell Debate Eggs vs Ethics in Stem Cell Debate
Reports of ethical breaches in the harvesting of human eggs for stem cell research in Korea has focused attention on the need to protect the health and welfare of women who might...
Nov 29, 2005 / Feature / Marcy Darnovsky and Emily Galpern