David Goodman

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David Goodman is a contributing writer for Mother Jones and co-author, most recently, of Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.

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Vermont Passes Single-Payer Health Care, World Doesn't End

Advocates celebrate, but critics warn: A few details—like, er, funding—have yet to be worked out.

Mon May. 30, 2011 2:15 AM PDT

War Games: The Army's Teen Arsenal

"America's Army" and more government shooter game lures.

September/October 2009 Issue

A Few Good Kids?

How No Child Left Behind allowed military recruiters to collect info on millions of teens.

September/October 2009 Issue

Vermont's "Happily Ever After"

Yes, anti-gay marriage robocalls urged us against it. Then love won.

Wed Apr. 8, 2009 1:38 PM PDT

America's Most Dangerous Librarians

Meet the radical bookworms who fought the Patriot Act—and won.

September/October 2008 Issue

Hard Time Out

Five-year-olds in handcuffs, eighth-graders detained for doodling: The prison boom comes to the schools.

July/August 2008 Issue

The Enablers

The psychology industry's long and shameful history with torture

Sat Mar. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PST

Syria and the US: Fellow Travelers at the Crossroads for Terrorism

When President Bush made torture a centerpiece of his foreign policy, it bound the US to the world?s worst human rights abusers.

Tue Sep. 19, 2006 11:00 PM PDT

Paul Hackett Stood and Fought. Can Democrats Follow His Lead?

Major Paul Hackett came home from Iraq to launch an assault on a GOP stronghold. Can Democrats follow his lead?

November 2005 Issue

The Hiroshima Cover-Up

How the military suppressed early reporting on the atomic devastation in Japan -- with help from the <i>New York Times</i>.

Thu Aug. 4, 2005 11:00 PM PDT

Breaking Ranks: The Story Behind the Story
Wed Oct. 20, 2004 11:00 PM PDT

Hell No: Soldiers Are Speaking Out Against the Iraq War, and Some Are Refusing to Fight

More and more U.S. soldiers are speaking out against the war in Iraq -- and some are refusing to fight.

Sun Oct. 10, 2004 11:00 PM PDT

Education: Class Dismissed

Laid-off teachers, 40-child classes, axed electives, and pay-to-play sports:Is Oregon the future of public education in America?

May/June 2004 Issue

Culture Change

Does the Selling of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt Signal the End of Socially Responsible Businesses -- Or a New Beginning?

January/February 2003 Issue

No Child Unrecruited

Should the military be given the names of every high school student in America?

November/December 2002 Issue

Recruiting the Class of 2005

Military programs have expanded into thousands of public high schools, signing up nearly half a million students. Is Junior ROTC building character -- or lining up soldiers?

January/February 2002 Issue

Treading on Liberia

Is Firestone paying for its faulty tires by shortchanging African workers?

May/June 2001 Issue

Forced Labor

Why are obstetricians speeding deliveries with an ulcer drug that endangers mothers and their babies?

January/February 2001 Issue

A More Civil Union

Vermont's legal recognition of same-sex couples has brought the latest struggle for gay rights out of the closet -- and onto the stage of national politics.

July/August 2000 Issue

America's Newest Class War

An innovative Vermont law designed to equalize school funding has pitted the haves against the have-nots

September/October 1999 Issue

Witness to the Dawn

Author David Goodman attended the inauguration of South Africa's second post-apartheid president, Thabo Mbeki. He reports on the spectacle for the MoJo Wire.

Mon Jun. 28, 1999 11:00 PM PDT

Reconciliation or Chaos?

Despite a fragile peace and a long public effort to heal the wounds of apartheid, South Africa remains a society of haves and have-nots.

May/June 1999 Issue