Issue 240: March/April 2002

Disabled People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine

The disabled community has responded to the adversities they face by organizing for legal rights that protect their autonomy and access to public life. But these rights are increasingly under attack.

features

Organizing After September 11

Autumn Leonard, Tomas Aguilar, Mike Prokosch, and Dara Silverman

"Everything has changed", but there's a lot that isn't so different.
The Enron Fun Pages

A quiz, a contest, a maze, and more!
Economic Debacle in Argentina: The IMF Strikes Again

Arthur Macewan
Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah

Laura Orlando

Forty years after the publication of Silent Spring, corporations are still trying to silence critics.
Does the "New Economy" Tilt to the Right?

Phineas Baxandall
D&S Reader Survey (PDF version)

Let us know what you think.

the regulars

the short run
letters
active culture Economic Human Rights
comment Lying on Top
making sense Balancing State Budgets / Trying to Reform "Welfare Reform" / The Surplus Vanished
in review Libertarians in Space
ask dr. dollar the discount rate
primer The Emperor's New Clothes
economy in numbers How States Are Spending Their Welfare Money - Or Not

Unemployment as Policy: Federal Layoffs, AI, and Corporate Understaffing

Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball

Disabled People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine

Issue 240: March/April 2002

features

the regulars