Issue 248: July/August 2003

Subscribe Now—30% Discount!

features

• Arabs and Muslims Under Fire

  Megan Harrington

  Hatem Abudayyeh on the post-9/11 crackdown.

• Fiscal Lockdown

  Julie Falk

  Will the prison industrial complex survive state spending cuts?

• The Real Winners

  Todd Tavares

  The most wanted war profiteers.

• From the Classroom to the White House

  Mark Maier

  N. Gregory Mankiw's popular textbook distorts economics.

• From Hope VI to Hope Sick?

  Sabrina L. Williams

  Developers and bureaucrats hijack the nation's public housing.

• Will Rent Control Make a Comeback in Boston?

  Steve Meacham

• The Hidden History of Rent Control

  Bob Feldman

• Raw Deal for Workers

  Chris Tilly

the regulars

• the short run
• active culture The fight for a more just public transit system
• letters
• making sense Wall Street settlement / Flattening Appalachia
• comment Why the peace movement must persist
• balance sheet Weapons makers' payouts pay off
• up against the wall street journal Bad news on Main St. is good news on Wall St.
• ask dr. dollar Is deflation a serious concern?
• economy in numbers World cities