Lakshmi Chaudhry, a former In These Times senior editor and Nation contributing editor, is a senior editor at Firstpost.com, India’s first web-only news site. Since 1999 she has been a reporter and an editor for various independent publications, including Alternet, Mother Jones, Ms., Bitch and Salon.
From February 2002 to June 2005 Chaudhry was a Senior Editor at AlterNet.org, where she coordinated all aspects of the online magazine’s coverage of the Iraq war and the 2004 elections. The site received two successive Webby awards during Chaudhry’s tenure: Best Political News site and Best Online Magazine in the “Prints and Zines” category. Before joining Alternet.org, Chaudhry was a freelance writer, contributing articles to a variety of publications, including Ms., Village Voice, Mother Jones, Bitch, Salon.com and the San Jose Mercury News.
Chaudhry was also a staff writer at Wired News from 1999 to 2000, covering issues related to the culture and politics of technology and an Editorial Fellow at Mother Jones in 1999.
Chaudhry is co-author of Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq and Start Making Sense: Turning the lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics.
Chaudhry graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1990 with a BA in Political Science. She earned her M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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The Sordid Sexual History of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
A conspiracy to keep DSK's true identity out of the spotlight.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Feature
The Godless Fundamentalist
In The Root of All Evil, biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his own lust for certainty
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Culture
The Power of Mean
Fuller argues that the moral power of Rankism = that everyone experiences being a somebody and a nobody - can overcome the innate force of bullying?
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass
The Bush administration's pragmatic policy toward Pakistan suggests its foreign policy is less ideological than imperial
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Viewpoint
The True Temptations of the West
Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond is a travelogue by Pankaj Mishra about the shadow of poverty in South Asia.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Culture
Why Hemingway Is Chick-Lit
Women read more fiction than men.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Viewpoint
What Not to Watch
Makeover shows like "What Not to Wear" teach women to listen to their inner demons
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Culture
Perpetuating the Yellow Peril
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Charting a Sane Course in the Middle East
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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To Hell With Caitlin Flanagan
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Culture
Acting Your Race
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Men Growing Up to be Boys
Madison Avenue cultivates a Peter Pan version of masculinity
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Viewpoint
Sex and the Septuagenarians
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Whining about diversity?
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Feature
Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Culture
Postcards From the Front
Recent Iraq soldier memoirs display a 'whatever, dude' detachment
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Viewpoint
Cowboys in Love
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Viewpoint
When Boys Will be Jarheads
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Viewpoint
The President’s Husband
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Culture
Babes in BushWorld
Raunch culture offers good old-fashioned pleasure, Republican style
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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