Miles Davis Miles Davis
Most of what we know about the life of Miles Davis is either anecdotal or a matter of official record, and thus not absolutely reliable; but by all accounts, most pertinently h...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lucius Shepard
The Girls of Summer The Girls of Summer
This Independence Day, the symbolic struggle being waged on thousands of screens across the Empire pits Reese Witherspoon against Arnold Schwarzenegger, gooey-sweet girl agains...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Road Map to Nowhere The Road Map to Nowhere
Although the laboriously negotiated and long-delayed Middle East "road map" received a diplomatic boost by the recent intervention of George W. Bush, the plan is replet...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey
A Costly Friendship A Costly Friendship
Much of the talk in Europe these days--in newspaper offices, at dinner parties, in foreign ministries--is about how the United States and Britain were conned into going to war ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Seale
Paul Wellstone Paul Wellstone
When Paul Wellstone perished in a plane crash along with his wife, his daughter and three members of his staff in October 2002, the horror of his death nearly overshadowed the ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Joe Conason
Bob Moses Bob Moses
Late one night in October 1961, I flew from Atlanta to Jackson, Mississippi, with Bob Moses.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Dorothy Day Dorothy Day
In the final days of Rudy Giuliani's term as mayor of New York, three months after the heroism of 9/11, he quietly approved a politically wired project to build twenty-five mul...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Wayne Barrett and Chris Barrett
Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie
When Bob Dylan took the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, all leather and Ray-Bans and Beatle boots, and declared emphatically and (heaven forbid) electrically that he w...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Steve Earle
Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays--devout Christian minister, uncompromising advocate for justice, career educator and longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta--was called the "Sc...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Roger Wilkins
Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger
"No Gods, No Masters," the rallying cry of the Industrial Workers of the World, was her personal and political manifesto.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Ellen Chesler