Theories of Relativity Theories of Relativity
During one pleasant dinner aboard the Nation cruise, one of my tablemates told an amusing story about Einstein giving a lecture in which he stated that he expected the solar sy...
Oct 31, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Home on the Range Home on the Range
There's a joke circulating on the Internet: A grandmother overhears her 5-year-old granddaughter playing "wedding." The wedding vows go like this: "You have the right to remain...
Oct 17, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
In the Name of My Father I Cannot Forgive In the Name of My Father I Cannot Forgive
Even after twenty-five years, the bitter taste of Argentina's "dirty war" lingers.
Oct 17, 2002 / Feature / Héctor Timerman
Welfare’s True Colors Welfare’s True Colors
With the 1996 welfare law expiring this fall, Congressmembers would do well to stop congratulating themselves on its alleged successes and turn their attention to the glaring f...
Oct 10, 2002 / Gary Delgado and Menachem Krajcer
Raceball in Boston Raceball in Boston
Any fan who over the years has attended a baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park notices how few African-Americans are in the stands.
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur
Racism: Coded as Culture? Racism: Coded as Culture?
This book makes a good case for racism--the word, not the ideology. What necessitated a defense?
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
The Great Airport Fire-Off The Great Airport Fire-Off
Admiral James Loy, the nation's top aviation security official, confirmed at an August 22 press conference what thousands of immigrant airport screeners have dreaded for nearly a...
Sep 12, 2002 / Feature / Michael Flaherty
Miami Heat Miami Heat
An antigay ballot initiative spurs some surprising political coalitions.
Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz
Black Unlike Me Black Unlike Me
Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselv...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John McMillian
Jewish Media Stranglehold? Jewish Media Stranglehold?
Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you stand.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Cliff Rothman