Domestic Violence
A Special Report
Underfunded shelters. Unenforced restraining orders. Will cops, Congress, and the Supreme Court leave women with no safe haven?

No Safe Haven
In the coming months, Congress and the Supreme Court will signal whether we are advancing in our fight against domestic violence, or in retreat

The Unforgiven
By Jennifer Gonnerman
Shelley Hendrickson killed her abusive husband and went to jail. Then an old friend began a campaign to free her — and 10 other women.

The Counselor
By Sara Catania
Patricia Prickett set out to beat the violence and ended up in the belly of the beast, working with the LAPD.

P L U S :


Roe v. Laci

Military base crimes

Good Courts: Problem-solving justice

Taking away battered women’s kids

A New Order in the Court

The Pentagon v. Abuse
Unintended Consequences: same sex marriage law and domestic violence
Domestic Violence: The Numbers
(Sources)
Resources for Getting Involved

Scrimmage on the Border
By Michael Scherer
Vigilantes and camera crews were amassing in the Arizona desert, but the real standoff was in Washington, as fear of immigration invaded the halls of Congress.

Home Sour Home
By Randall Patterson
When Jordan Fogal’s new house turned out to be a lemon, her builders and the Texas authorities thought they could handle things quietly. They didn’t know Jordan Fogal.

The Business of Poaching
Photographs by Patrick Brown
Text by Monika Bauerlein
Giant pythons, orangutans, exotic pangolins — everything is “product” in the brutal underworld of animal trade.

Long Road Home
By Alan Light
Who would produce an album that honors Chicano culture, slams L.A. politics, condemns eminent domain, and has a UFO alien as emcee? Why, Ry Cooder, of course.

Editor’s Note
Masthead
Contributors
Backtalk

OUTFRONT
Fair, Not Balanced; Trashing the AARP with Grandma Green; swashbuckling legal strategy against Coke and Unocal; cheap drugs in the capital; slash and splash on the Mexican coast; and what we don’t want to see when we look at Iraq

EXHIBIT
The Road to Nowhere
A nation of workaholics sings the summertime blues.

SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD
The Days of Bread and Roses
By Joann Wypijewski
Organized labor is on the ropes; can it find salvation in the union movement’s revlolutionary origins?

EXPOSURE
China’s masses of production
Photograph by Michael Wolf

MEDIA JONES
Bullshit, in the literary sense; journo-cartoonist Joe Sacco discusses Bosnia, Palestine, and comic-book heroics; the secret life of garbage; titanic titles; plus more book, music, and film reviews

RE:ACTION
Resources for getting involved

P.S.
Additional Bush Nominees
Cartoon by Peter Kuper