LA’s Progressive Mosaic: Beginning to Find Its Voice LA’s Progressive Mosaic: Beginning to Find Its Voice
When members of the LA janitors' union decided to go on strike this past April, their success was far from guaranteed.
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
A City That Worked A City That Worked
The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprise...
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder
Gato and Alex–No Safe Place Gato and Alex–No Safe Place
This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the street...
Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Little House in the ‘Hood Little House in the ‘Hood
I was wandering around Harlem recently, late on a warm Sunday afternoon: I saw Dominican families chatting on stoops. I saw African-American families walking home from church.
Jun 1, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
LA: Call the Feds LA: Call the Feds
When Chief Bernard Parks of the Los Angeles Police Department heard the news in mid-May, he reportedly went into rigid shock.
May 18, 2000 / Marc Cooper
The School That Wasn’t The School That Wasn’t
Fernando Contreras points to the area behind a green mesh fence where his family home used to be. He is about to be a grandfather for the first time.
May 18, 2000 / Feature / Susan Anderson
LAPD: Law and Disorder LAPD: Law and Disorder
Can you top this? seems to be the theme of the escalating police scandal in Los Angeles.
Mar 22, 2000 / Tom Hayden
A Hard Schooling A Hard Schooling
I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system. Of the 150 receiving degrees today, you hold only 191 jobs. That is less than two jobs p...
Jun 17, 1999 / Jimmy Breslin
Postcards From the Left Postcards From the Left
As the limos and their glitterati cargo pull up to the Oscars ceremony this year, they may have to share a bit of screen time with a band of angry picketers.
Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters
What happens to a leading Marxist writer after he gets a MacArthur genius grant, a Getty Fellowship, and his new book hits number one on the nonfiction bestseller list?
Feb 4, 1999 / Feature / Jon Wiener