November 2007 Volume 31, Issue 11

November 2007

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Viewpoint

E-Wasting Away in China Terry J. Allen

Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses Laura S. Washington

Suicide and Spin Doctors H. Candace Gorman

Jena and the Post-Civil Rights Fallacy Salim Muwakkil

Blackwater Nation Brian Cook

The Times vs. Feminism Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Banana Republic to Baby Republic Jacob Wheeler

Pirates of Private Equity Adam Doster

Harry Potter and the Muggle Activists Andrew Slack

Has the Change Led to Wins? David Moberg

Prison Breakdown Sasha Abramsky, TRUTHOUT

The Left’s Identity Crisis Ken Brociner

A Mother’s March For Justice Christopher Weber

Make-a-Sheikh David Enders

Dispatch

Lobbying for Cancer Michelle Chen

Transgendered Behind Bars Lewis Wallace

Harassment Unchecked at Army Hotel Kari Lydersen

FCC Rocks Chicago, Chicago Rocks Back Jessica Pupovac

Culture

Youth Gone Wild Brent White

Suffering Secondary Trauma Silja J.A. Talvi

Survival of the Adapted Achy Obejas

The Politics of Everyday Phoebe Connelly

Banana Republic to Baby Republic

Guatemala could shut down its massive adoption industry

Jacob Wheeler

Pirates of Private Equity

An insanely lucrative investment strategy finally faces public scrutiny

Adam Doster

Harry Potter and the Muggle Activists

Harry Potter is filled with a childlike magic that plays out in a world whose "dark and difficult times" often mirror those of our society

Andrew Slack

Has the Change Led to Wins?

Not yet, but organizers from the seven unions that split from the AFL-CIO have big plans.

David Moberg

Prison Breakdown

Overcrowding has pushed California's prison system to the brink

Sasha Abramsky, TRUTHOUT

The Left’s Identity Crisis

What does it mean to be a progressive in 2007? What do we stand for? What do we believe in?

Ken Brociner

A Mother’s March For Justice

Jena Six mother Tina Jones talks about clearing the reputation of her son Bryant Purvis

Christopher Weber

How the Pentagon transformed a contractor into a symbol of the surge's 'success'

David Enders

Youth Gone Wild

Jared Cohen's book Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East seeks to understand an area of the world where hatred for his country and religion run rampant

Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

Suffering Secondary Trauma

Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind explores the complexity of Chang's psychology as it formed around the demands of her profession and her personal struggles stemming from her writing about The Rape of Nanking

Silja J.A. Talvi

Transgendered Behind Bars

A recent study by the San Francisco-based Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project on rape in California prisons found that 59 percent of transgender people reported being sexually assaulted in prison in 2006, compared to 4 percent of the general prison population

E-Wasting Away in China

While the media ride their new lead-painted hobbyhorse--the danger of Chinese wares--spare a thought for Chinese workers dying to dispose of millions of tons of our toxic crap

Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era--the world still perceives us as "refugees"--permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy

Laura S. Washington

Suicide and Spin Doctors

There are many ways for the oppressor to force himself into the mind of the oppressed, but one surefire way is through indefinite detention. Never knowing when--or if--you will be released is a cruel form of psychological torture and allows you to keep hope while simultaneously filling you with fear

H. Candace Gorman

Survival of the Adapted

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion

Jena and the Post-Civil Rights Fallacy

Around the country, black males face a criminal justice system that incarcerates them more than eight times the rate of whites

Harassment Unchecked at Army Hotel

Sexual abuse and rape in military culture--and a lack of action by military authorities--are long-standing problems, brought to light with the Tailhook scandal in 1991

Blackwater Nation

Contracting soldiers of fortune is only one example of our recent philosophy of government

FCC Rocks Chicago, Chicago Rocks Back

At the recent FCC hearing in the Windy City, citizens came out in droves to voice their displeasure over the media landscape

Jessica Pupovac

The Times vs. Feminism

The Book Review's recent nasty review of Katha Pollitt's memoir is only the latest in a long line of outlandish attacks on feminists

Susan J. Douglas

The Politics of Everyday

The political changes for which we've striven have made a material difference in the way women conceive of their lives, writes Katha Pollitt in Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories

Phoebe Connelly

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