The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Risking Everything for Europe

Industrial fishing off the African coast ruins livelihoods and sends fishermen on a perilous journey across desert and sea.

Hans Lucht

Feature

Equating Stillbirths with Murders

Just how legally viable is Maryland's Viable Fetus Act?

Lindsay Beyerstein

Dispatch

Civil War by Other Means

Rigoberta Menchú's presidental bid could turn the page on Guatemala's bloody past

Jacob Wheeler

Feature

General Failure

An enduring crisis in civil-military relations threatens America's future

Gregory D. Foster

Viewpoint

Justice Denied

One man stands between Flozelle Woodmore and the "free" world--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Silja J.A. Talvi

Feature

A Win in the Water War

Stockton, Calif., residents have stopped one multinational company from taking over their water system, but other localities remain threatened

Megan Tady

Viewpoint

The Bush Administration’s New Target: Uninsured Kids

Fighting against SCHIP is Bush's first salvo in the battle for major health care reform

Art Levine

Dispatch

The Drug War’s Collateral Damage

Those victimized by a crackdown on marijuana since the early '90s can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights to the right to adopt a child

Silja J.A. Talvi

Culture

Giving Science the Finger

Generalizations based on hand shape not only are formulated from small pools of data, but smack of pseudo science.

Jody Kolodzey