Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right
They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein
Bad for Business Bad for Business
"How many times can you say 'unbelievable'?" my wife asked the other morning, as I was rattling the newspaper and again exclaiming over the latest outrageous news from American ca...
Jun 13, 2002 / William Greider
Backbeat in China Backbeat in China
A hundred days ago Wu'er Kaixi was a fugitive.... Yesterday, before an audience of 800 Americans and Chinese at Brandeis University, he showed what brought a 21-year-old Beijing N...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Anthrax and the Military Anthrax and the Military
The Pentagon's recent decision to limit anthrax vaccine shots to those at high risk does not address the fundamental objection to the shots, which is the lack of informed consent....
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Mary L. Cummings
Globalizing Clinical Research Globalizing Clinical Research
Big Pharma tries out First World drugs on unsuspecting Third World patients.
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Sonia Shah
Letter From London Letter From London
A specter is haunting the Jews of Europe: the specter of anti-Semitism. A synagogue is firebombed in Belgium; three more are burned in France, where Jean-Marie Le Pen's National F...
Jun 13, 2002 / D.D. Guttenplan
Terrorism as Normalcy Terrorism as Normalcy
Gangbangers with dirty bombs! Now we're talking. The big news about the latest suspected terror bomber is not that he now calls himself Al Muhajir but that he was formerly Jos&...
Jun 13, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Unions on the Net Unions on the Net
Unions are gradually making fuller use of the Internet's capacities to improve communication with their own staffs or members. But increasingly they are also using the web to recr...
Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman
Testing Times in Higher Ed Testing Times in Higher Ed
The SAT has been on the ropes lately. The University of California system has threatened to quit using the test for its freshman admissions, arguing that the exam has done more ha...
Jun 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Sacks
Leash the FBI Leash the FBI
The FBI has come under harsh criticism in recent weeks for its failure to act on information that might have enabled it to thwart the September 11 attacks. Rather than deny the cr...
Jun 6, 2002 / David Cole