magazine September 15, 2003

Decisions, Decisions

As labor ponders which Democrat to endorse, it also girds for battle against the GOP in ‘04

By David Moberg   

Grant’s Tomb

The USDA and the dying black farmer

By Damien Jackson   

Gender Trouble

How far can identity politics really take us? The latest evidence of their success is all around us.… more

By Jessica Clark   

Women on the Edge

In the early part of the 21st century, American women find themselves at a powerful, transitional place in… more

By Silja J.A. Talvi   

Sex and the Student Body

My first week of college I enjoyed my first dose of smut. The source? Squirm: The Art of… more

By Elizabeth Ehrenberg   

Is Baseball Ready for a Gay Jackie Robinson?

Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, which won this year’s Tony award for best Broadway play, tells the story… more

By Peter Dreier   

Friends in Need

Iran and India move closer

By Jehangir Pocha   

Biodiversity Inc.

Mexico tries a new tactic against Chiapas rebels: conservation

By Bill Weinberg   

Electricity Markets and the Blackout

When California suffered its energy crisis two years ago, it was first presented as a problem of too… more

By Dave Lindorff   

Market Up, Jobs Down

Working people face more hard times

Finally Free

One Death Row inmate’s uphill battle

Raving Mad

New drug law limits gatherings

books

In God’s Country

Early on July 24, 1984, Dan Lafferty, a fundamentalist Mormon living near Provo, Utah, got out of bed,… more

By Mark Engler   

The Naked and the Dead

Deep in the Babylonian Talmud, heard amid its ancient rustlings and disputings and brain-whorls and coiled insanities, is… more

By James Parker   

theater

Free at Last

At center stage, underneath a solitary spotlight, a middle-aged black man tells of how he ended up on… more

By Jeremy O’Kasick   

Editorial

Trading in Terror

Thanks to John Poindexter, free-market fundamentalism has finally crossed a line.

The Third Coast

The Summer of Civil Rights

Civil rights groups are still searching for a common thread to unite progressives in a struggle for racial justice.