Rachel Corrie has been a lightning rod for controversy since her death in Gaza at the age of 23, when she was run over by an Israeli soldier while attempting to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian ...

A few pages into the script of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play drawn from the writings of the young American activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, the titular character meditates ...

In other Mideast news, the parents of the slain American peace activist Rachel Corrie were on hand Tuesday for events marking the seventh anniversary of her killing. Corrie was crushed to death by an ...

“If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.” Rachel Corrie wrote these words just ...

Look beyond the politics espoused in the fact-based one-woman drama My Name Is Rachel Corrie, currently onstage at Second Thought Theatre at Bryant Hall. They’re dicey and have drawn controversy since ...

This story was updated to add a photo gallery. Less than half of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" is devoted to the weeks Corrie spent in Gaza prior to her death in 2003. But the portrait of the younger ...

As friends and family mourn the killing of Turkish American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, we speak with the parents of Rachel Corrie, another American killed ...

The most provocative play on Milwaukee's fall theater schedule is being staged by one of the city's newest theater companies. Vanguard Productions is performing "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a one-actor ...

Coming almost a decade after her death beneath the tracks of an armored Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, the verdict in the Rachel Corrie case was the furthest thing from a surprise. By the time ...

The parents of Rachel Corrie got their first chance Thursday to hear from the man who drove the vehicle that killed her. But they were denied a chance to confront him face-to-face in an Israeli ...

An Israel court has ruled that the Israeli military was not at fault in the death of Rachel Corrie, an pro-Palestinian activist who was killed trying to stop the demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip ...

I’ve never been more alarmed about the state of our democracy. The U.S. is sliding toward authoritarianism faster than ever, while corporate media turns a blind eye. That’s why Common Dreams exists—to ...