June 2007 Volume 31, Issue 06

June 2007

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Viewpoint

The Legacy of Tailhook Susan J. Douglas

Locking Attorneys out of Guantánamo H. Candace Gorman

Postal Rates = Free Press Robert McChesney

America’s Child Soldier Problem Terry J. Allen

Feature

Whose Subsidy Is It Anyway? David Moberg

Not By Spin Alone Laura Flanders

Who’s Afraid of Democracy? Christopher Hayes

Dancing Into the Majority Adam Doster

Hello, I’m a Democrat Conor Kenny

The Dreams of Others Slavoj Žižek

Curiosity and a Cat Named Studs Laura S. Washington

Dispatch

The Checkpoint Women of Israel Robert Hirschfield

NOLA: Priced Out of the Parade Fatima Shaik

Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville Kari Lydersen

Sacred Lands, Sewer Snow Chelsea Ross

Chicago Unions Flex Political Muscle David Moberg

Culture

Chasing the Green Pound in London Jessica Clark

Developmentalism in the Big Apple Steven Wishnia

These Guns for Hire Chris Barsanti

Whose Subsidy Is It Anyway?

Farmers take the heat, but Big Ag reaps the farm bill benefits

David Moberg

Not By Spin Alone

In the battle over reproductive rights, on-the-ground organizing is far more effective than massaging the message

Laura Flanders

Who’s Afraid of Democracy?

Believing that "people are rational as consumers and irrational as voters," many conservatives would favor free markets without democracy

Christopher Hayes

Dancing Into the Majority

Once alienated, grassroots activists are finding ways to work with the Democratic Party establishment

Adam Doster

Hello, I’m a Democrat

Meet the netroots activists who have moved online and into political office

Conor Kenny

The Dreams of Others

By tying the drama to a mere personal whim, The Lives of Others fails to capture the true horror of the GDR

Slavoj Žižek

Curiosity and a Cat Named Studs

Legendary Chicago writer Studs Terkel celebrates 95 years on May 16, and a new book this fall

Laura S. Washington

The Checkpoint Women of Israel

Machsom Watch advocates for fair treatement of Palestinians, drawing both resentment and respect from their countrymen

Robert Hirschfield

NOLA: Priced Out of the Parade

Rising costs, lack of protection, threaten New Orleans' traditional second line marches

Chasing the Green Pound in London

Forget "I am not a plastic bag" campaign, Spitalfield's Market is where to find London's genuine eco-friendly fashion

Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville

Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans

The Legacy of Tailhook

Supporting our troops at any cost overshadows holding them accountable for sexual assault within military

Susan J. Douglas

Developmentalism in the Big Apple

Cost of living has skyrocketed in New York, but under fatcats Giuliani and Bloomberg, the working man's wage has not

Locking Attorneys out of Guantánamo

Government launches war against habeas counsel under claim that lawyers are "acting as a conduit for the media"

H. Candace Gorman

These Guns for Hire

Blackwater unites conservative Catholics, evangelicals and neoconservatives to fight a theoconservative holy war

Paula Villescaz

Postal Rates = Free Press

Rate hike pushed by media conglomerate Time Warner threaten small and medium-circulation publications

Robert McChesney

Sacred Lands, Sewer Snow

American Indians fight to stop an Arizona ski resort from making snow out of sewage water.

Chicago Unions Flex Political Muscle

Instead of fighting Mayor Daley, labor movement goes after his aldermen pawns

America’s Child Soldier Problem

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