magazine August 11, 2003

The Supremes and Gay Rights

A closer look at Lawrence v. Texas

By Vincent J. Samar   

The Changing Face of AIDS

Young black men bear the brunt of the epidemic

By Karen Hawkins   

Our Living Constitution

Lawrence v. Texas gives new meaning to American freedom

By Eric Foner   

Learning from SARS

As world health officials struggle to defeat the latest global epidemic, they should be preparing for the next one

By Mark Parascandola   

Against Liberal Intervention

During the early phase of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, I came across a scathing critique of the war… more

By John R. MacArthur   

Intervene with Caution

Three years ago, U. N. Secretary General Kofi Annan asked, “If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on… more

By Ian Williams   

How Badly Do You Want to Win?

Do you want a different president in 2004? I’m asking this as a serious question, not a rhetorical one.… more

By Rep. Jan Schakowsky   

No Reservations

Union workers in Chicago put the heat on hotels

Moving on Just Fine

Web site allows women to share positive aspects of abortion

Chile’s Media Watchdog

On the same May 12 afternoon that Michael Copps, dissident commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, was in San… more

books

Is There Hope for Africa?

Being held up at gunpoint seems like a rite of passage for those who frequent Africa south of the… more

By G. Pascal Zachary   

books

The World Was Not Enough

The role of intellectuals and ideas in the project of empire has once again come to the fore. Witness… more

By Christian Parenti   

Will You Laugh for Me, Please?

On April 8, Charles R. Douglass, the inventor of canned laughter—the artificial jollity that accompanies comical moments on TV… more

Smash and Grab

Ang Lee’s The Hulk is the kind of rambling, overstuffed psychodrama that only a true artist could create. Reportedly,… more

Help Wanted

While the economy and the job market continue to stagnate, there seems to be no shortage of odd jobs… more

By Matt Isaac   

Editorial

Prescription for Privatization

The new prescription drug legislation would be especially bad for poor people.

The Third Coast

Affirmative Denial

Few Americans know of the legacy that racial slavery and Jim Crow apartheid has bequeathed to African-Americans

Power Mad

Sells Like Teen Spirit

Selling “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” to 11-year-olds doesn’t seem particularly honest to me.