April 17, 2000


Special environmental issue

The First Stone
BY JOEL BLEIFUSS
The European Union quietly holds
corporations accountable

David Brower's Last Chance
BY JEFFREY St. CLAIR
Taking out Glen Canyon dam

Down the Drain
BY JIM MOTAVALLI
The coming world water crisis

Water War Zone
BY JIM SHULTZ
Bolivians take to the streets
over the price of water

Rivers of Cyanide
BY JASON VEST
Mining disasters the media miss

Spliced and Diced
BY KAREN CHARMAN
America pushes frankenfoods

How to Deal with Gore
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and
LOIS MARIE GIBBS

Love him or leave him?


News & Views

Editorial
BY DAVID MOBERG
Turn of the screw

Appall-O-Meter
BY DAVID FUTRELLE

A Terry Laban Cartoon

Left Out
BY HANS JOHNSON
After Super Tuesday, progressives
mull over missed opportunities

Who's the Boss?
BY HANS JOHNSON
James Dobson, Republican
kingmaker

Devil Inside
BY HANS JOHNSON
Randall Terry is driving Vermont Republicans into the arms of
liberals

What Women Want
BY DAVID MOBERG
Working wonen's votes could seal
Al Gore's fate. But is he listening
to them?

Sunburn
BY STANTON McMANUS
A new banking law is set to
silence consumer advocates

With Friends Like These
BY TERRY J. ALLEN
Kissinger does Indonesia

David vs. Goliath
BY KARI LYDERSEN
Socialist presidential candidate
David McReynolds


Culture

Full Metal Racket
BY BILL BOISVERT
BOOKS: The Vietnam War's
new apologist

Horror Show
BY ROANE CAREY
BOOKS: Without Sanctuary

Spinning Wheels
BY JOSHUA ROTHKOPF
FILM: Brian de Palma
gets lost in space

Scary Kid Stuff
BY BETH BIRNBAUM


 

Who's the Boss?

By Hans Johnson

Washington

Religious-right mogul James Dobson, president of a $110 million non-profit group called Focus on the Family, has a become major player in national politics, invoking God to urge voters to support initiatives he favors, including anti-same-sex marriage Proposition 22 on the California's March 7 primary ballot.

Known best for his nationwide radio broadcasts offering stern advice on child-rearing, Dobson has lately become a much-feared kingmaker in Republican politics. In February, when John McCain denounced the "evil" politics of the religious right, he was careful to heap praise on Dobson. Such courtesy is hardly mutual. Dobson went to bat for George W. Bush by decrying McCain over his temperament and lapses in a past marriage "reminiscent of the man who now occupies the White House." For Dobson, touting family values doesn't mean playing with kid gloves.

Hans Johnson writes about religion, labor and politics from Washington, where he is assistant editor of Academe magazine.

 

 


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