When rape is a weapon of war, denying abortion services compounds grave human rights abuses. So why does the Obama administration play by the right's rules?
Posted on Oct 2, 2009, Source: The American Prospect
For years, the religious right tried to lose its racist image, reverting to homophobia as its hatred of choice. As it joins the Tea Party fray, it may once again have to own both.
There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men?
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff.
Backpacker fiction like "The Beach" explores the authenticity-grubbing subculture of the dreadlocked, ganja-scented travelers, but women have been left out -- until now.
Kristina Borjesson talks about "Into the Buzzsaw" and her excommunication from mainstream journalism after she began challenging government assertions about TWA Flight 800.
A previously unpublished photo of a sexual assault at Seattle's 2001 Mardi Gras won a major photojournalism prize -- and raised difficult questions about privacy.
The authors of the incendiary new book "Into the Buzzsaw" have won nearly every journalism award possible, yet all were censorsed for challenging corporate or government power.
Tough-guy writer Nick Tosches elegantly mourns the vanishing of a decadent icon. Michelle Goldberg writes that she "knows from my own blissful experience that the opium den lives on."
Now that anti-Semitism has receded in America, young Jews are looking around and wondering what it means to be Jewish if being Jewish no longer means being persecuted.
A recent spate of pop culture man-beatings indicates that the War of the Sexes is far from over. Why has the image of a frenzied female attacking a callow guy become a media staple?
In the mainstream media, unemployment has falsely mutated into a hot new trend. Stories of happy, laid-off hipsters have obscured the true tragedy of post-9/11 poverty.
In the year 2000, after decades of wrangling with the myth of the ugly, hirsute, ball-busting women's libber, the culture has finally seemed to reconcile beauty and power, fun and feminism. But like so many other cease-fires in our society, this one was negotiated largely in the marketplace.
Posted on Jan 2, 2001, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
The newest source of pop-culture fascination and bawdy celebration is food. But why is there so much drama in simply admitting to the intense pleasures of taste?
"One expects William Vollmann, swashbuckling whoredog, war correspondent, quixotic freedom fighter, gun aficionado and fiction prodigy, to be gruff and imperious. Yet, out of all the many writers I've interviewed, he's probably the only one who, after giving long, considered answers, looks at me and asks "what do you think?"
Posted on Jul 10, 2000, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
As the dotcom layoffs mount -- a recent New York Times article counts more than 2,000 -- so do the ranks of the disillusioned. Dotcom deathwatchers like dotcomfailures.com and FuckedCompany.com suggest that a backlash is brewing against the Internet economy.
A handful of resourceful techno-privacy activists have taken over Sealand, an island fortress six miles from the English coast, and plan to start a super-secure data sanctuary there.
