The Minister of Minstrelsy The Minister of Minstrelsy
Meet Jesse Lee Peterson, who says what the right would like to, but can't.
Mar 24, 2005 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
Losing Ground Losing Ground
Black farmers and the agrarian culture they embody are rapidly disappearing.
Mar 20, 2005 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
Hip-Hop Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Hip-Hop Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Though promoted as an antiracist event, the rally lamented the state of the corporate music industry generally.
Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Mark Hatch-Miller
Summers of Our Discontent Summers of Our Discontent
As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man.
Feb 3, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Cartoon Wars Cartoon Wars
Once upon a time, a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham went on a tear over Wonder Woman.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow
History holds clues to a winning electoral strategy for progressives.
Jan 27, 2005 / Feature / Bill Fletcher Jr. and Danny Glover
Harry’s Travails Harry’s Travails
Imagine, in the same month as the death of the muse of high camp, Susan Sontag, we have England in an uproar about Prince Harry and his silly armband.
Jan 20, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
And Justice for All And Justice for All
Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians co...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé
Wrong for Civil Rights Wrong for Civil Rights
When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media's harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry's purported combativeness distracted rea...
Dec 22, 2004 / Susan Eaton
Goodbye to All That? Goodbye to All That?
On European anti-Semitism, old and new.