magazine June 23, 2003

Civil Liberties Take a Dive Post-9/11

Peaceful demonstrators shot and beaten. Students expelled for wearing T-shirts opposing the president. A Girl Scout threatened with arrest… more

By Dave Lindorff   

What’s Your ‘Risk Score’?

A profiling system for all air travelers is just around the corner.

By David Jones   

The Buddha’s Teardrop

For 20 years, the Tamil Tigers have fought a vicious, separatist war against the Sri Lankan government. Can a tenuous ceasefire last?

By Miranda Kennedy and Matthew Power   

Meet Howard Dean

Could he mobilize progressives to oust Bush in 2004?

By David Moberg   

Economic Fix

How to salvage a broken economy

By Dean Baker   

Reason for Hope

India and Pakistan reach tentative agreement

Privatizing Iraq

The Bush administration’s neoliberal blueprint for the post-Saddam state

Right to Know

With no help from U.S., the world takes steps to find the “disappeared”

Tidal Wave

International movement takes on the water industry

Gangs of Orange County

At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, an angry audience member stood up after the third screening of a film… more

By Kevin Y. Kim   

books

The Long Detour

The History and Future of the American Left

By James Weinstein   

The Next Chapter

“If rap is to stand as not only the most significant cultural movement of our time but one of… more

By Damien Jackson   

The Third Coast

Biowar and the Apartheid Legacy

Weapons could theoretically be developed that affect particular arrangements of genes clustered in specific ethnic or family groups.

Back Talk

The ABCs of Media Deregulation

As soon as most people see the words “duopoly,” “cross-ownership rules,” or “FCC” in the headlines their eyes glaze over. But not my… more

Editorial

Isnt That Special

‘They were so crazed and so far out and so difficult to reason with—to the point of being bizarre.’