The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow
How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste.
Mar 9, 2010 / Michelle Alexander
Power in the Blood Power in the Blood
Bloody Sunday has both political and religious overtones.
Mar 7, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Snipping at Immigrants’ Safety Net Snipping at Immigrants’ Safety Net
In search of a trifling 1.5 percent bite to take out of California's $20 billion budget gap, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a cruel and short-sighted cut in public assista...
Feb 22, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tiger Woods: Rehabbing His Brand Tiger Woods: Rehabbing His Brand
Today's Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in painful self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven't seen anything this painfully scripte...
Feb 19, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Justice at Last? Justice at Last?
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississ...
Feb 13, 2010 / Esther Kaplan
Exchange: Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn on the Hispanic Crime Rate Exchange: Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn on the Hispanic Crime Rate
How groundbreaking is research showing that Hispanics have a crime rate comparable to white Americans? Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn debate.
Feb 12, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn and Katha Pollitt
The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine
No politician has ever suffered a more humiliating rejection than the former leader of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its current sitting president, Viktor Yushchenko.
Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship
I was not surprised by "HisPANIC: the Myth of Immigrant Crime," Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative showing that Latinos in the US have a crime rate no higher...
Feb 11, 2010 / Katha Pollitt
RNC’s Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card RNC’s Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele used to be able to muster a lot of disdain for political players who suggested that criticism of them might be racially motiva...
Feb 10, 2010 / John Nichols
The Bogus Crime Wave The Bogus Crime Wave
A host of politicians and pundits would have you believe that Hispanic immigrants are to blame for an uptick in urban crime. They're wrong.
Feb 4, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn