Buy-Nothing Year
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Dec 15, 2006
Members of the Compact, a group who pledged to spend less in 2006, talk about ways to kick the nastiest holiday habit.
Young and Green
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Dec 11, 2006
Social justice, climate control, food and farming, green cities -- these were the issues driving the young environmentalists at this year's Bioneers conference.
Buried Under Medical Debt
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Oct 23, 2006
For the nearly 14 million young people who don't have health insurance, getting sick means more than a trip to the hospital: it can put them in bankruptcy and ruin their life's plans.
Therapy for Revolutionaries
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Sep 15, 2006
A new documentary explores a Brazilian therapy that combines anarchist politics with the search for mental and physical liberation.
Autism: the Art of Compassionate Living
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Jul 11, 2006
Parents of autistic children strive to raise awareness in a world full of misconceptions about what autism really means. (Part 2 of 2.)
Autism: A Hidden Epidemic
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Jul 10, 2006
One in 166 children are diagnosed with autism; yet the schools are ill-equipped to educate and care for them.
It Should Break Your Heart to Kill
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Feb 13, 2006
Brian Turner, who was an infantry team leader in Iraq, recently reflected on the war-time experiences in his new book of poems.
Tookie's Final Hour
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Dec 13, 2005
Protesters come from different walks of life, full of hope that Williams’ life might be spared in the last minute. Many believed he was worth more to society alive than dead.
Growing Up in Jesus Land
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Oct 27, 2005
Julia Scheeres' new memoir is a riveting story of a 16-year-old girl and her adopted brothers growing up in Indiana with their violent father and religious mother.
The High Price of Donation
By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Oct 7, 2005
Young college women are increasingly being targeted by egg donation agencies for their good looks and their good grades.