By • Aug 29,2004

Generation Zip

It was 1999. Downtown Seattle had just been ravaged by WTO protesters. They smashed the windows at Starbucks, tore down advertisements, and suffered tear gas and plastic handcuffs. A respectable...

By • Aug 22,2004

Exit neocons, stage left

Many neocons spent the run-up to the Iraq war denouncing the conservatives who voiced opposition. But now their differences with the right are becoming clearer, and their continued alliance with...

By • Aug 22,2004

Frat boy nation

This fall, across many of the nation’s college campuses, thousands of teenage boys — only a few months removed from their high school prom — will take part in the...

By • Aug 15,2004

Choice? What choice?

Americans make tough choices every day: Breyer’s or Dreyer’s ice cream? Fresh broccoli or asparagus? Organic strawberries? Genetically modified tomatoes? Affluent societies expend countless hours on “fluff” choices while ignoring...

By • Aug 15,2004

Eminent domain on the wane?

Private property owners got some good news from Michigan last month when the state’s supreme court struck down a county’s use of the eminent domain power in County of Wayne v....