Who’s Afraid of Cornel West? Who’s Afraid of Cornel West?
Writing in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Israeli History about Israeli revisionism, Mark Lilla of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought makes the obse...
Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
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 / Beat the Devil / 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 / Editorial / 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
Wall Street’s Soiled Hands Wall Street’s Soiled Hands
The capital unscrupulously pumped from poor neighborhoods by way of predatory loans whizzes along a high-speed financial pipeline to Wall Street to be used for investment. "It's a...
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray
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
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
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 / Editorial / James X. Dempsey