Stories by Lakshmi Chaudhry
Lakshmi Chaudhry is a senior editor at In These Times and a former senior editor of AlterNet.
Posted on Dec 4, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
We may recoil at the 9/11 narrative, but for many in India, it is a call to the world to recognize their loss.
Posted on Nov 17, 2007, Source: TheNation.com
The crass commodification of Latina traditions and rites of passage is disintegrating the familial and communal relationships they are meant to celebrate.
Posted on Jun 27, 2007, Source: The Nation
Putting Hillary Clinton in the White House would shatter an enormous glass ceiling, yet many feminists aren't cheering at that prospect. Here's a look at how some of Clinton's most ardent supporters became her biggest resisters.
Posted on Dec 15, 2006, Source: In These Times
Oxford University biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his fundamentalist approach to atheisim in his new documentary, The Root of All Evil.
Posted on Jul 7, 2006, Source: In These Times
A new reality television show demeans women whose greatest fashion crime seems to be that they aren't rich.
Posted on May 9, 2006, Source: In These Times
A new book says that if middle-class mothers are sleep-deprived, angry, exhausted and unhappy, it's a consequence of their foolish demand for self-fulfillment.
Posted on Apr 13, 2006, Source: In These Times
Can we recognize race differences without reducing people to stereotypes?
Posted on Mar 23, 2006, Source: In These Times
Since the rise of 'lad' culture in the '90s, grown men act like boys -- and are richly rewarded for it.
Posted on Mar 9, 2006, Source: In These Times
Gail Sheehy's new book, about sex and the 'seasoned' woman, argues that older women should be free to have sex however -- and however much -- they want.
Posted on Feb 8, 2006, Source: In These Times
Bloggers tout the rise of the netroots as changing how politics works, but will the internet just become a new method of conducting politics as usual?
Posted on Jan 9, 2006
Sadly, it's time to say goodbye to this blog.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005
Lakshmi Chaudhry is taking a much-needed computer-free vacation. She'll resume blogging sex, life and politics when the new year rolls around.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005
The former prez offers up tales of the bizarre.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005
Iraqi security forces reveal stellar aptitude for incompetence -- no doubt thanks to their excellent training by the Pentagon.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005, Source: In These Times
The film 'Brokeback Mountain' is a cinematic example of a fast-dying phenomenon: love stories of tragic proportions.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005
Being dissed by a Hollywood hottie is just no fun.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005
One expert worries that the blogosphere's liberal interpretation of copyright laws may make them vulnerable to lawsuits.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005
The premise of King Kong may not be as far-fetched as we might want to think.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005
Though the language is a little vague, it is clear that the auto company has changed its mind -- again -- about running ads in gay publications.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005
Coming soon to a car near you.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005
The Washington Post political editor channels Scott Mclellan
Posted on Dec 14, 2005
Brokeback Mountain is both a "gay cowboy movie" and an epic love story.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
The Dan Froomkin saga over at the Washington Post gets uglier by the minute.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
Folks living in the Arctic are suing the U.S. government for its climate change policies
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
Appearances are indeed deceptive.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
Everything you don't want to know about Angelina Jolie's sex life.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
The newspaper stumbles on an important and yet under-covered aspect of Condi's international jaunt: airplane food.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
The so-called "evidence" of ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq were procured from a detainee in one of the secret prisons.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005
The radical right agenda of social conservatives may be creating a window of opportunity for Democrats.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005
It also marks the first time any one in this administration put a number on the casualties.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005
People with a curious hobby are becoming a valuable resource for reporters and activists seeking expose CIA activities.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005
About the lack of good news about Iraq.
Posted on Dec 11, 2005
How nice that we've gone to the trouble of overthrowing Saddam to replace him with toadies who act exactly like him.
Posted on Dec 9, 2005
Goddamn it, it's time Iraqis learned to terrorize their own.
Posted on Dec 9, 2005
What is a Pocahantas flick without a dash of child pornography?
Posted on Dec 9, 2005
CNN's secret weapon in its latest plan to improve ratings.
Posted on Dec 9, 2005
It's not porno spam but Dem bloggers getting excited about something Paul Wolfowitz said about the war.
Posted on Dec 9, 2005
A new way to avoid SIDS: get a dummy.
Posted on Dec 8, 2005
The professor beaten up for deriding creationists has resigned.
Posted on Dec 8, 2005
His AIDS effort in Africa is increasingly adopting an abstinence-only message that is both ineffective and fatal.
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