Identity Politics Identity Politics
While controversy rages across the country over whether computerized voting machines may result in lost or manipulated votes, there is another change in the election system this ...
Jul 29, 2004 / Feature / Tova Andrea Wang
Ralph Reed’s Gamble Ralph Reed’s Gamble
When Ralph Reed was the boyish director of the Christian Coalition, he made opposition to gambling a major plank in his "family values" agenda, calling gambling "a cancer on the ...
Jun 24, 2004 / Jack Newfield
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
In June 1965 James Farmer, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and longtime champion of Gandhian nonviolence, arrived in Bogalusa, Louisiana, to support a desegregat...
Jun 17, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee
The Soros Slander Campaign Continues The Soros Slander Campaign Continues
We return this week to the conservative crusade to destroy the reputation of financier and philanthropist George Soros.
Jun 17, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Fear of a Brown Planet Fear of a Brown Planet
A wave of minority politics is cresting in California--white minority politics.
Jun 10, 2004 / Feature / Roberto Lovato
‘We Better Do Something’: Toni Morrison and Cornel West in Conversation ‘We Better Do Something’: Toni Morrison and Cornel West in Conversation
In 1993 the Nobel Prize-winning author and the Princeton professor sat down to discuss blues, love, and politics.
May 6, 2004 / Feature / Toni Morrison and Cornel West
Homophobia of All Hues Homophobia of All Hues
The marriage-equality movement confronts anti-gay sentiment among blacks.
Apr 29, 2004 / Feature / Christopher Lisotta
Vanishing Votes Vanishing Votes
On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb.
Apr 29, 2004 / Greg Palast
Racism and Reproductive Rights Racism and Reproductive Rights
The March for Women's Lives is paying considerable attention to issues of concern to minority women.
Apr 22, 2004 / Ginger Adams Otis