Anniversary 2019

Publisher’s Statement, June ’80 “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” That’s the exact wording of the Equal Rights Amendment, better known as the ERA. It’s a simple statement of equality for the majority of American citizens—women. I…

Publisher’s Statement, July ’88 When I started HUSTLER Magazine, I intended to bring readers something they couldn’t get from magazines, but that still reflected real life: women as naked as you see them in bed, jokes told with the same language you hear at work or in bars, and information unaffected by sacred cows of…

Publisher’s Statement, March ’03 As of this writing, it looks like we will be going to war with Iraq. According to President-select Bush, we are doing this because Saddam Hussein is evil, because he harbors weapons of mass destruction and because he supports terrorism. While I agree that Hussein is a bad guy, there is…

Publisher’s Statement, May ’13 As traumatic as they are, rampage shootings are now a regular occurrence in our country. Many factors have led to that reality: availability of guns, lack of mental-health treatment, abusive environments, violence in popular culture, the list goes on. There’s no specific reason and no specific solution. As President Obama eloquently…

The United States under our current leadership continues to set new records in the worst way. We lead the world in school shootings, prisoners per capita and deaths from drug overdoses. In 2018 another record was broken: the total time that wrongly convicted prisoners have lost served behind bars. According to the National Registry of…