Janelle Brown

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  • Love boat

    Errant women on a convict ship to Australia in the 1780s were sexual playthings, potential mothers and sometimes romantic partners -- if they didn't succumb to scurvy first.
    By Janelle Brown March 20, 2002

  • Ticky-tacky houses from "The Painter of Light™"

    Hiddenbrooke, a development "inspired" by Thomas Kinkade, ain't exactly ye olde quainte village it bills itself.
    By Janelle Brown March 18, 2002

  • Swift injustice

    Anger and frustration dominate reactions to the quick guilty verdict in the murder trial of Andrea Yates.
    By Janelle Brown March 13, 2002

  • Saying no to propaganda

    Critics say the government's new anti-drug campaign is reactionary and moralistic. Worse, it may not even work.
    By Janelle Brown March 12, 2002

  • What family values?

    The director of the Child Witness to Violence Project argues that President Bush isn't doing enough for kids who see too much.
    By Janelle Brown February 25, 2002

  • Private hell

    Who is to blame in the death of a California toddler and the alleged neglect of 12 siblings?
    By Janelle Brown February 15, 2002

  • The impossible calculus of loss

    A windfall of public and private funds awaits the victims of Sept. 11. Is it being fairly divided? Is it fair that they get far more than other victims? And will their compensation change charity and disaster relief forever?
    By Janelle Brown January 2, 2002

  • An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality

    Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women.
    By Janelle Brown December 13, 2001

  • Hopeless in Jerusalem

    "Promises," a documentary about children growing up in the middle of the Arab-Israeli conflict, reveals early lessons in hatred and a grim absence of optimism.
    By Janelle Brown December 12, 2001

  • Ready for her close-up

    A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan.
    By Janelle Brown December 12, 2001

  • The women behind the women of Afghanistan

    Hena Efat was smuggled into the Afghan Women's Summit; her plan is to go home and fight some more.
    By Janelle Brown December 11, 2001

  • Putting the world on notice

    Delegates to the Afghan Women's Summit, deftly maneuvering past their differences, issue an ambitious agenda for inclusion in their nation's future.
    By Janelle Brown December 6, 2001

  • A chance to shine

    Delegates in Brussels prepare for a role in government, and react variously to a French belly dancer in a spangled bra.
    By Janelle Brown December 5, 2001

  • Any day now

    Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government.
    By Janelle Brown December 3, 2001

  • "A Woman Soldier's Own Story" by Xie Bingying

    An autobiography of a rebellious Chinese girl who kicked off her footbindings and an arranged marriage to join the army is available in English for the first time.
    By Janelle Brown December 3, 2001

  • Eve Ensler: "Afghanistan is everywhere"

    The novelist, playwright and activist behind "The Vagina Monologues" talks about gender apartheid, the dangerous shedding of burqas and the seeds of violence we've begun to sow.
    By Janelle Brown November 26, 2001

  • "Beneath the Veil" redux

    Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War."
    By Janelle Brown November 16, 2001

  • From crackpots to gurus

    Survivalists are getting some respect, and lots of new friends, as worst-case scenarios get serious attention.
    By Janelle Brown November 12, 2001

  • Tarnished glossies need to shine again

    In the wake of Sept. 11, will the fashion magazines stop catering to socialite snobs in stilettos?
    By Janelle Brown November 5, 2001

  • Afghanistan's land mine nightmare

    Mines killed 1,100 Afghans last year, and injured up to 100 more a week. Now American ground troops head to a battlefield littered with 10 million mines -- and the conflict could leave more behind.
    By Janelle Brown October 22, 2001

  • Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition

    After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected.
    By Janelle Brown October 19, 2001

  • Movies of the Middle East

    Middle Eastern cinema provides a rich and complex look at a region that has suddenly moved to center stage.
    By Janelle Brown October 9, 2001

  • The mystery cure

    A simple approach to treating trauma has had spectacular results in the wake of tragedies in Oklahoma, Bosnia and Littleton. Will EMDR help in New York?
    By Janelle Brown October 4, 2001

  • The Taliban's bravest opponents

    An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells Salon her story.
    By Janelle Brown October 2, 2001

  • Terror's first victims

    When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer.
    By Janelle Brown September 24, 2001
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