Racial Privacy Racial Privacy
Ward Connerly, figurehead for California's anti-affirmative action Proposition 209, is up to more mischief. This time it's a push to prevent California's public agencies from cl...
May 30, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Joie de Vivre in the Land of Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts Joie de Vivre in the Land of Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts
I got up Monday feeling mellow: Expected red, but it was yellow.
May 30, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Browning of America The Browning of America
In the past two decades, Richard Rodriguez has offered us a gamut of anecdotes, mostly about himself in action in an environment that is not always attuned to his own inner life. ...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Fighting the Drug (Ad) Wars Fighting the Drug (Ad) Wars
As corporations push new medicines, sound and affordable healthcare suffers.
May 30, 2002 / Feature / Dr. Marc Siegel
Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould
When the Kansas Board of Education voted in 1999 to remove the teaching of evolution from the state's science curriculum, most thinking Americans groaned about the growing influen...
May 30, 2002 / John Nichols
The Full Rudy: The Man, the Mayor, the Myth The Full Rudy: The Man, the Mayor, the Myth
Giuliani's record includes big accomplishments and spectacular lapses.
May 30, 2002 / Feature / Jack Newfield
‘Trembling…Can Be Heard’ ‘Trembling…Can Be Heard’
A young man of 16, visiting his cousins in Calcutta in a house in a "middle-middle-class area," has just published his first poem. This not-yet-poet from Bombay is the narrator of...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
In Fact… In Fact…
SENATOR HOLLINGS TO THE RESCUE Jeff Chester writes: Public interest advocates claim a victory in their fight against the seemingly invincible media-consolidation juggernaut. Erne...
May 30, 2002 / The Editors
Singing to Power Singing to Power
British folk-rocker Billy Bragg has to be the only popular musician who could score some airtime with a song about the global justice movement. The first single from Bragg's En...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
The Mideast War Breaks Out on Campus The Mideast War Breaks Out on Campus
One of the biggest problems Palestine's supporters face is anti-Semitism.
May 30, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone