August 7, 2000 Features Human Wrongs BY PAUL HOCKENOS BOOKS: How the Great Powers failed the Balkans. Swollen Fortunes BY DAVID MOBERG Congress feeds the rich. Food Pyramid Scheme BY SALIM MUWAKKIL Got milk? Taiwan Stands Up? BY NICKOLA PAZDERIC Competing visions of manifest destiny. The First Stone BY JOEL BLEIFUSS Is Project Censored up to snuff? News No Way Out BY ROBIN SHULMAN Palestinian refugees face an uncertain future. Harm's Way BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK Child sex tourism feeds Thailand's economy. Paper Chase BY DAVID BACON The AFL-CIO sparks a new immigrant rights movement. Metcalf's Mess BY MICHAEL ELM An environmental campaign turns racist toward a Northwest Indian tribe. Dumped BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Bush's dirty politics turn a Texas town into a sewer. Profile BY LINDA LUTTON Raul Ross: statesman abroad. Views Editorial BY CRAIG AARON The willing executioner. The Flanders Files BY LAURA FLANDERS New York state of crime. Viewpoint BY JANE HOLTZ KAY Wolves in green clothing. Viewpoint BY GUY SAPERSTEIN Elect an environmental president. Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE A Terry Laban Cartoon Culture Age of Innocence BY CATHERINE TUMBER BOOKS: Jonathan Kozol's Ordinary Ressurections. Latin America BY JON WIENER BOOKS: Mike Davis' Magical Urbanism. Day-Glo Bacchanalia BY JASON SHOLL FILM: Groove. The Word Is Law BY KARL ERIKSON ART: It's about being sponsored.

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Once again, In These Times has been honored by Project Censored in its annual list of the top 25 under-reported news stories. Read the winners here. What Was the War For? August 8, 1999 BY SETH ACKERMAN What Rambouillet really said. 30 Years After August 8, 1999 BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR The legacy of America's largest nuclear test Hot Property, Cold Cash October 17, 1999 BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR The plan to make Russia the world's nuclear waste dump Election 2000 Recent articles on the November elections. Did you miss a recent issue? July 10, 2000 June 26 , 2000 June 12 , 2000 Special poverty issue. May 29, 2000 Assessing A16. May 15, 2000 May 1, 2000 Spring books. April 17, 2000 Special environmental issue April 2. 2000 March 20, 2000 After Seattle Our special issue on the WTO protests Some other recent articles: VIeques Libre October 3, 1999 BY JUAN GONZALEZ Puerto Rico wants the U.S. Navy to get out Class Ceiling November 28, 1999 BY BARBARA EHRENREICH Can feminism survive? After the Fall December 12, 1999 BY DEAN BAKER The stock market will crash. Then what? God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian February 7, 2000 BY KURT VONNEGUT Union Busting 101 February 21, 2000 BY TERRY J. ALLEN The End Is Near BY RICK ROCKWELL Mexico's historic presidential election.