Just a Needle-Stick Away Just a Needle-Stick Away
In New Mexico, communists who fail to register their party affiliation with the state commit a felony. Under New Mexico's DNA databanking law, if they are caught they are require...
Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman
Now Set the Teeth… Now Set the Teeth…
Afew days before the election, I accompanied a friend to the dentist's office. It was one of those situations in which appearance takes over more complex realities of who we are....
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Misidentity Politics Misidentity Politics
The high point of liberal faith that the color line might be permanently breached may have been the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. From a participant's perspectiv...
Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
No Defense No Defense
How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.
Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer
North of the Border North of the Border
One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte
Color and the Court Color and the Court
The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Christopher Edley Jr.
Selma Is Still Selma Selma Is Still Selma
Selma, Alabama, a touchstone in the civil rights movement, is frozen in a way that confounds onlookers.
Sep 7, 2000 / Amy Bach
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
Affirmative Retraction Affirmative Retraction
A century ago, as America made clear its retreat from the egalitarian gains of Reconstruction, two powerful voices set out differing agendas for how black Americans should respon...
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner
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