Janelle Brown

Bitter pills

Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons.

Janelle Brown Thursday, Jun 1, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 44
Life Healthcare Reform, Mexico

Your glow stick could land you in jail

The latest incarnation of the RAVE Act punishes drug users and bystanders alike -- and tramples civil liberties.

Janelle Brown Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 5:29 PM UTC
Life Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill.

Over my dead body

Activists are flocking to the West Bank to serve as human shields, protecting Palestinians and protesting the Israeli occupation. Are they part of the solution -- or part of the problem?

Janelle Brown Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003 8:17 PM UTC
Life Middle East

All-American soft-porn sweats with a twist

The Juicy Couture tracksuit is the height of haute in L.A., a uniform for starlet and wealthy wannabe alike.

Janelle Brown Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003 8:33 PM UTC
Life Fashion

The unexamined thug life

Makers of an ill-fated indie film about L.A. gangbangers claim that a fear of unruly black audiences has prompted theater owners to shun their work.

Janelle Brown Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002 2:10 PM UTC
Life

Brother, can you spare a dime for my Gucci bills?

Cyber-begging fuels the new philanthropy, in which brand, beauty and instant karma matter most in raising funds.

Janelle Brown Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002 7:37 PM UTC
Life

For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes.

Janelle Brown Monday, Sep 30, 2002 7:08 PM UTC
Life Religion

Trial by public humiliation

Some birth mothers in Florida must publish their sexual histories in local newspapers if they wish to place their child for private adoption.

Janelle Brown Wednesday, Aug 21, 2002 7:03 PM UTC
Life Adoption, Abortion

Summers at Camp Ethnicity

Are camps for foreign adoptees just a place for their parents to exorcise white guilt, or do they help the kids develop pride, cope with prejudice and get in touch with their roots?

Janelle Brown Monday, Aug 12, 2002 7:00 PM UTC
Life Adoption

Vin Diesel is hot

I know lusting after this big ugly hunk of a man is ridiculous -- but it's not just physical. Really.

Janelle Brown Friday, Aug 9, 2002 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Reno

The Latino lesbian comedian detonates a series of explosive observations about patriotism, the Bush administration and John Walker Lindh.

Janelle Brown Thursday, Jul 18, 2002 7:16 PM UTC
Entertainment

L is for lawsuit

Angry that little Johnny flunked, increasing numbers of parents are suing teachers.

Janelle Brown Friday, Jul 12, 2002 7:10 PM UTC
Life Education

When the drug war invades the chess club

ACLU lawyer Graham Boyd discusses the impact of Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular school activities.

Janelle Brown Friday, Jun 28, 2002 7:27 PM UTC
Life ACLU

Porn provocateur

Lizzy Borden, whose ultraviolent films feature women being beaten, raped and doused in vomit, insists that she is a gender pioneer whose repellent movies are morality tales.

Janelle Brown Thursday, Jun 20, 2002 7:25 PM UTC
Life Pornography

Here come the buns

Butt cleavage is not just for the plumber anymore.

Janelle Brown Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:49 PM UTC
Life Fashion, Jennifer Lopez

Smoke a joint and your future is McDonald’s

A federal law passed in a burst of drug war fervor denies financial aid to the country's neediest students.

Janelle Brown Monday, May 20, 2002 7:38 PM UTC
Life ACLU, Academia

Napster’s wake

The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings.

Janelle Brown Friday, May 17, 2002 10:13 PM UTC
Entertainment

A new stunt to stunt growth

New restrictions on high school graduation go further to infantilize teenagers in the hope of making them perfect adults.

Janelle Brown Monday, May 13, 2002 7:20 PM UTC
Life

Jeff Probst is not an idiot

The weather-beaten host of "Survivor" talks about his debut indie film, "Finder's Fee," and why no one takes him seriously.

Janelle Brown Wednesday, May 8, 2002 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Survivor, Movies

Why drug tests flunk

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way.

Janelle Brown Monday, Apr 22, 2002 7:05 PM UTC
Life

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