AltWeeklies Wire
Pro-Choice Advocates Face the Fetal Frontiernew
Pro-choice activist Frances Kissling has penned a provocative article in the current issue of Conscience, the journal of Catholics for a Free Choice, encouraging fellow advocates to acknowledge the moral and emotional complexity of abortion.
The Village Voice |
Sharon Lerner |
12-09-2004 |
Sex
Tags: George W. Bush, Abortion, John Kerry, Planned Parenthood, Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, C-sections, Ellie Smeal, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Feminist Majority Foundation, fetal pain, Laci's Law, Lynn Paltrow, Rosalind Petchesky, selective reduction, triplets, Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act
Not So Fast on Canonizing Bush's Homeland Security Picknew
Bush's appointee as secretary of homeland security, Bernard Kerik, was hailed as a hero after the 9-11 attack. A good deal of his hero image is promoted, if not created, by Rupert Murdoch's New York publishing genius Judith Regan.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway |
12-08-2004 |
Politics
Medical Marijuana Keeps On Rollingnew
Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but the issue is gaining in popularity in New York State.
The Village Voice |
Jennifer Gonnerman |
12-08-2004 |
Science
Alberto Gonzales Played Role in Texas Death Penalty Casesnew
Alberto Gonzales briefed George W. Bush on death-penalty cases when Bush, as governor of Texas, allowed 150 men and two women to be executed. And now Gonzales will be the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
12-08-2004 |
Politics
Al Sharpton Takes a Hypocritical Plungenew
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Al Sharpton helped engineer the demise of his mentor, Jesse Jackson, who had an affair with the executive director of his nonprofit organization and showered her with benefits, even while Sharpton was sending every signal to those around him that he was doing the same.
The Village Voice |
Wayne Barrett |
12-07-2004 |
Politics
Coffee-Table Books with a Jagged Edgenew
Buying a coffee-table book once conferred a sense of your own good taste. It was only a matter of time before publishers began catering to the downwardly aspirational, offering cheap (well, not that cheap) voyages into other people's fringe or freaky existences.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
12-01-2004 |
Nonfiction
Media Come Out Slugging After NBA Brawlnew
The tabs and the custodians of "serious journalism" applied their cultural critique of choice to the Artest-incited brawl in Detroit. Why isn't a similar moral lens cast on the war in Iraq or the scenes of mad shoppers trampling each other on the first day of the Christmas shopping season?
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
12-01-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
Your Parents Are Charging Your Futurenew
The first of the baby boomers will retire in 2008. Their adult children in Generation Debt are understandably nervous about their parents' security -- and by extension, their own.
The Village Voice |
Anya Kamenetz |
12-01-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Dead-Check in Fallujanew
The infamous video: A Marine stands over a wounded Arab sprawled on the floor of a mosque and shoots him in the head. What military officials are not saying is that the Marine's behavior conforms to training that is fairly standard in some units. It's called "dead-checking."
The Village Voice |
Evan Wright |
11-24-2004 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Subterranean Homesick Bluesnew
While most people in New York canvass the city's surface for bars and parks, or look toward the sky or ocean for added entertainment, Solis has a long history of reaching below the earth's crust and noting what goes on beneath that superficial first layer of dirt.
The Village Voice |
Amy Braunschweiger |
11-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Specter Stands Between the Right and Roe v. Wadenew
With a disastrous war unfolding in Iraq, an exploding deficit, and half the country feeling alienated, the Republicans have plenty of political reasons to need support beyond the religious right. Whether or not they get it will likely depend on whether they pursue the witch hunt of women's new best friend, Arlen Specter.
The Village Voice |
Sharon Lerner |
11-17-2004 |
Sex
After the Election, Conspiracy Theories Unaddressednew
For all the type and tape spent on Election 2004, several loose ends are still in need of tying: Bush's bulge, poll fraud and other rumors that the mainstream press has largely ignored without entirely refuting.
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
11-17-2004 |
Politics
Voters Turned Out in Droves in a Poor Corner of Ohionew
In the small African-American city of East Cleveland, Ohio, many precincts were close to matching their total votes in the last presidential election by 10 a.m. on Election Day.
The Village Voice |
Tom Robbins |
11-09-2004 |
Politics
Young Progressives Dust Themselves Off to Prepare for 2006new
Against the odds, the trauma of the devastating defeat on November 2 appears to be convincing young people anew of the importance of working politically within their own communities, on their own terms.
The Village Voice |
Anya Kamenetz |
11-09-2004 |
Politics
Gay Marriage and Abortion Tug Blacks Toward GOPnew
While African Americans in several states voted to ban gay marriage, they also voted overwhelmingly against George Bush.
The Village Voice |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
11-09-2004 |
Politics
