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Caution, You Are Entering a No-Condom Zone
By some accounts, Laura Roxx arrived in L.A. in her late teens and on borrowed money. She wasn't looking for mega fame, just a couple of gigs in adult films and a nest egg to get back home to Canada...
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Here, Kiddie, Kiddie
For Gene Haislip, a former official of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the perennial debate over Ritalin, the stimulant commonly prescribed for children with "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
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Tempest In a Teapot
If you haven't tried it yet, you've doubtless seen it on the shelves of your local natural foods store or on the drink menu of your favorite coffeehouse. For many people, a strong-tasting, South...
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The Fire This Time
Richard Moore's ceaseless schedule of meetings, conferences and borrowed couch space is a window into the activist fire that drives him.From his office in New Mexico, the soft-spoken Puerto Rican...
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The Good Ship Rebecca
In December 2004, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts gave a speech at a Buenos Aires cultural center. Anti-choice activists gathered to protest. They proffered pamphlets and hoisted signs. Some scuffled and threw...
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Chemical Soup and Federal Loopholes
Phthalates, the chemicals used in some cosmetics, may keep your nail polish hard and shiny and your tresses thick and glossy, but in animal tests they cause birth defects, disrupt hormone systems and...
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Brazil's Bold Move
Bolstering its reputation as a world leader in price wars over AIDS medications, Brazil is threatening to break antiretroviral drug patents unless drug companies allow it to manufacture generic...
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Miracle Malpractice
Medical technologies are a main driver for escalating drug costs, helping put health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. In a new book, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances...
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Wal-Mart's Wily Ways
Pelted by bad press and needing some image wax, Wal-Mart last week broke with company tradition by bringing journalists to its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas for the company's first-ever media...
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The New Schism
Clamoring for attention from a world distracted by war and terrorism, Latin Americans were hoping for a pope from their region where, by some accounts, 65 percent of the world's Catholics live.It is...
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Brazil to U.S.: Keep Your Money
Brazil has rejected $40 million in U.S. funds for fighting AIDS because of demands that it condemn prostitution, a key participant in its flagship AIDS program. The move is seen by some observers as a...
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'El' Jazeera
Move over Al Jazeera, Telesur is here.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, tireless polemist and Bush nemesis, has a new pet project: a continent-wide television network slated for broadcast throughout...
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Drug Deal
For Luis Lopez, a 42-year-old single dad in Guatemala, globalization has nada to do with economics or democracy. On the contrary, for Lopez, it's about something much more basic: los anti-marcas...
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South America's Mining Wars Heat Up
On May 25, some 2,000 protestors near Espinar, Peru stormed the world's third largest copper mine, attacking officials, taking over facilities and forcing the mine's owner, BHP Billito, to shut down...
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Testing DNA's Truth
Score one more for DNA.Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to hear the case of Paul House, a Tennessee death row inmate whose guilt has been questioned by DNA tests that didn't exist at the time he...
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Google's Bias for Bigness
So you need a news fix....You grab some caffeine, jump online and head toGoogle News to search for the latest news about, say, New York City's planned Freedom Tower.It crawls across some 4,600...
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Uncle Sam, Meet the Bloggers
For Richard Morrison, the $350,000 he received in online donations got the politically unknown Democrat within spitting distance of unseating Rep. Tom Delay, R-Texas, in 2004.A good part of that money...
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Taking a Closer Look at Fluoride
To most folks, the decades-old controversy over fluoride belongs to the realm of foil hats and ham radios, of black U.N. helicopters and Freemason conspiracy theories.But the investigation of a Harvard...
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Wal-Mart's Semi-Green Week
Looking to shave operating costs and revive a wilting reputation, Wal-Mart last week unveiled an eco-friendly store near Dallas, Texas, an experimental Supercenter complete with wind turbines,...
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From Defender of Nature to 'Eco-Terrorist'
Tre Arrow's unwitting trajectory from candidate for Congress to the FBI's most wanted "eco-terrorist" began on Easter Sunday in 2001, when a firebomb equipped with a fuse destroyed $200,000 worth of...
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Freeing Up the Right to Vote
When a traffic altercation became a fistfight, Joseph Hayden laid a guy out for good and did thirteen years for manslaughter. Two college degrees later, the New York-based activist is now the public...
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Rumsfeld's Ray Gun
A tough-talking Texan named Edward Hammond has to be a key element of any accurate study of the spooky history of what the military calls the "Active Denial System."The head ofThe Sunshine Project, a...
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Don't Steal This Television
A man does thirty-five years in prison for stealing a $149 television. Case files from the gulag? Try North Carolina.In 1970, Junior Allen, a black sharecropper, walked into an unoccupied house in...
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Hugo's Helping Hand
In a stunning reversal of largesse, the global community is sending aide to a superpower humbled by mythic disaster. But before Katrina came ashore, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had already...
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We're All Patients Now
Last month, the state of Californiasued 39 drug companies for price gouging. A week earlier, a jury hit Merck & Co. witha $253 million verdict over its painkiller Vioxx, which was linked to patient...
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Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
A remorseless rapist in Hamilton County, Ohio is sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating and raping a 57-year-old woman. An environmental activist in California is sentenced to 22 years and 8...
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The NRA Takes on Gun Control -- in Brazil
Brazilians flatly rejected a plan to ban the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition in a historic national referendum on Sunday. The vote is a victory for Brazil's wealthy gun lobby which opponents...
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Patrolling America's Backyard?
A military deal between the U.S. and Paraguay has put U.S. Special Forces in the sweaty heart of South America, just south of the Tropic of Capricorn. It has also fanned fears that the Bush...
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Arrested Development
Dear Judge, I need my mom. Would you help my mom? I have no dad and my grandmom have cancer I dont have innyone to take care of me and my sisters and my niece and nephew and my birthdays coming up in...
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Exclusive: Selling the Amazon for a Handful of Beads
Scanning bookshelves in his tiny law office in Quito, Ecuador, Bolivar Beltran's disdain for Big Oil is as legible as the contracts that map their nefarious ways."These were all negotiated in secret,"...
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Changing the Drug War Debate
When Evo Morales took the office of president of Bolivia on Sunday, it was notable not only as the end of a "Bolivian-style apartheid" but also for making Morales the world's No. 1 spokesman for the...
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Google's China Syndrome
Are Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco playing Smithers to China's Emperor Burns? In recent weeks, major technology players have been accused of helping China police its internet. Yahoo helped China...
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A New Spin on Fighting for Justice
Nigeria, 1999: Government soldiers, riding in helicopters owned by Chevron Corp., fire on villages opposed to oil operations. Colombia, 1998: The Colombian Air Force, acting in the interest of...
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Bringing McCarthyism to a University Near You
Last week, during his office hours at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., professor Miguel Tinker Salas, a Venezuela-born historian and Bush administration critic, received an odd visit.It had nothing...
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Big Pharma's Deadly Experiments
A newly surfaced report alleges that in 1996, drug monolith Pfizer gave an unproven drug to Nigerian children and infants suffering from meningitis -- without the authorization of the Nigerian...
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Biopirates Walk the Plank
A National Geographic project that uses DNA to map humanity's genetic lineage is under fire from indigenous rights groups that are pressing the United Nations to halt the project.The controversy marks...
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Drinking Water Threatened: TVA Tries to Hide Information About Water...
The Tennessee Valley Authority manipulated science methods to downplay water contamination caused by a massive coal ash disaster, according to independent technical experts and critics of the federally...
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Why the Nation's Biggest Environmental Distaster May Be About to Get Worse
This is the second in a series of investigative reports on the fallout from the Tennessee coal ash spill. Research support was provided by the Puffin Foundation Investigative Fund atThe Nation...
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Big Oil Wreaks Havoc in the Amazon, But Communities Are Fighting Back
On Wednesday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments inTomas Maynas Carijano v. Occidental Petroleum, a case in which the defendant resides just miles from the...
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Unregulated Clinical Trials, Exploitation, and Profit: How the FDA Allows Big...
The following article first appeared on the Web site of The Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for its e-mail newsletters here. When her son’s diarrhea wouldn’t stop, Diana...
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