In her new book, Consuming Kids, ventriloquist-turned-child-psychologist Susan Linn tries to build a movement to regulate marketing to children. You say there has been an explosion of marketing to children. What do you mean? The proliferation of electronic media that happened in the ‘80s and the early ‘90s has made kids more vulnerable then ever. […]
Alyssa Rayman-Read
Alyssa Rayman-Read is a former American Prospect writing fellow.
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Guantanamojo
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia With worldwide attention and some cajoling from Secretary of State Colin Powell, a tentative dialogue appears to have commenced between India and Pakistan. Representatives from the two countries will meet at a conference in Munich, Germany […]
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Bulldozing the Peace Process?
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia War of Words Over Kashmir Asian media this week contemplates the possible spread of the war on terrorism to other Asian countries, while diplomatic sparring between India and Pakistan continues — though tensions between the two […]
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Blair’s Homecoming and Arafat’s “Ship of Death”
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Egging on India-Pakistan Tensions The political and military standoff between Pakistan and India dominates the headlines again this week. Despite international pressure — including a joint statement from Russia and China, and admonishment from George W. […]
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Conflict Over Kashmir
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Heightened Tensions in Kashmir India and Pakistan are precariously close to the brink of war over the long-disputed Kashmiri region of India. The conflict heated up after a suicide attack on the Indian Parliament December 13 […]
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Rebuilding on Splintered Foundations
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Rebuilding on Splintered Foundations Although Hamid Karzai’s interim government has taken residence in Kandahar, few Afghani citizens have faith in its success; after two decades of chaos, many people in Afghanistan have no memory of an […]
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Gurl Power
On the Internet, the year 2000 was the year of the female. The number of women using the Web surpassed men for the first time last year, according to a study released by Media Metrix/Jupiter Communications in August. And girls between the ages of 12 and 17 make up the fastest-growing group of Web surfers. […]
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Girl Wanted: Must Be Able to Mange
Feeling idealistic? The following job description recently appeared online at www.idealist.org , a global directory of opportunities at mostly left-leaning nonprofit groups. Perivate Secretary to the Chairman IHRC Job Category: Administration Type: Full time Description: The International Human Rights Commission need one Specialprivate secretary to the excelleny World Chairman for long term (10 years) fulltime. […]
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The Sound of Silence
“I am here today in the United States to testify about the impact of the global gag rule,” declared Susana Galdos Silva, the co-founder of Movimiento Manuela Ramos, a women’s health organization in Peru that receives family-planning funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This was last July. She was speaking, with full […]
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Lipstick and Politics:
Much of the feminist activity existing online today, now popularly dubbed “Third Wave Feminism” or “Youth Feminism,” partly evolved from by a group called the RiotGrrrls, started in 1992 by female punk rockers in response to the sexism they saw permeating punk culture. Using “Grrrl,” a term coined by Bikini Kill singer/activist Kathleen Hanna to […]