My favorite articles have been profiles of fascinating figures -- civil rights legend Bob Moses, poet and activist Grace Paley, novelist and wild woman Dorothy Allison-- but I also enjoy in-depth research into current scientific, political and ethical controversies. My other pleasure: writing personal commentaries for Vermont Public Radio.
You can find a few of my articles here -- or at least the ones new enough to have survived the digital divide. Warning: This website is a work in progress. I'll try to add a few articles every week, but it will be a while before it's even marginally complete!
Arizona governor Janet Napolitano is on the front lines of the battle over immigration. Her tough stand has the rest of the country paying attention – and wo...
Women–and drug companies– have long been searching for a way to ignite sexual desire. Now, with the race heating up, Alexis Jetter investigates the controver...
An alarming 44 percent of women say they have experienced abusive behavior from a partner. Years after the bruises from domestic violence fade, the physical ...
GET ANGRY. GO VIRAL. CHANGE By ALEXIS JETTER GROPED ON THE STREET? CAN’T GET GOOD MEDICAL CARE FOR YOUR FAMILY? WANT TO TOPPLE A DICTATOR? COME TELL YOUR STO...
Before making her international hit, Europa, Europa, and the new, acclaimed Olivier, Olivier, Polish director Agnieszka Holland survived many personal trauma...
Deep inside the Mississippi Delta, where he once dodged Klan bullets and sharecropper adulation, Bob Moses has quietly returned to finish the task he started...
Obese women have been passed over for jobs, denied decent medical care, and even told they aren't fit to be parents. But many of us think it's really their f...
Wynona Ward keeps her eyes on the rutted dirt road as she drives through the undulating mountain valleys of central Vermont and into her past. She rounds a b...
Most midlife women don't use condoms. But one in three women newly affected with HIV is age 40 or over. Just because you're married or can't get pregnant doe...
Dorothy Allison WRITES EVERYTHING down: dialogue she overhears on buses, the stories of her dead aunts, fragments from old June Carter songs. She takes notes...
WHEN THE APPEALS ARE EXHAUSTED AND THE JAILHOUSE KEY ABOUT TO BE THROWN AWAY, KATIE MONROE IS THE WOMAN TO CALL. FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, SHE HAS FOUGHT TO ...
THE OLD, WHITE HOTEL SOUTH OF Amsterdam was the last stop on the junkie express, and most guests packed light. Nicola and Marcel brought only what they neede...
A Reader's Digest Special Report: Prescription drugs are more popular with teens than cocaine, heroin, and meth--combined. The scariest part: you probably ha...
