SEVENTEEN IMMIGRANTS DETAINED for several weeks after an immigration raid at a candy packaging company in the Chicago suburbs were strip-searched, denied medical attention, roughly handcuffed, coerced to sign deportation papers they did not fully understand,...
Unless you attended its 10-week run at New York City's Grand Theatre in 1954, you missed Salt of the Earth the first time around. In the decades since, director Herbert Biberman's dramatic account of the real-life strike by the men and women of a Mexican-American...
1.3 Who's Been a Naughty Diplomat?Police in El Salvador made a shocking discovery in March. They found a man in the courtyard of his home, drunk, bound and gagged, and wearing only bondage gear. Only after the policemen painstakingly removed the rubber...
BOOKSDeconstructing HezbollahWHEN GEORGE W. Bush issued Executive Order 13224 on Sept. 23, 2001, presenting a protocol to combat al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations of "global reach," Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia organization, was not on the list,...
The Bush administration's "Complex 2030 plan is reviving the nuclear threatONLY DAYS BEFORE THE fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush addressed military officers in Washington to warn that nuclear-armed terrorists could "black-mail...
excerptFeminism doesn't just get a bad rap. In some circles, there must be a fight to discuss it at all. In her new book, Full Frontal Feminism (Seal Press), Jessica Valenti, founder and executive editor of Feministing.com, issues a rallying cry for...