Strange Fruit Strange Fruit
I have a friend who is the only black person living in his luxury cooperative building. A few years back, there was a get-to-know-your-neighbor party.
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
In Cold Type In Cold Type
Topic magazine is a kaleidoscopic new British literary review, still in its infancy and edited by a bunch of precocious Cambridge graduate students.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’
Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang
Russell Simmons’s Rap Russell Simmons’s Rap
Russell Simmons, known for decades as Rush to his friends, is of average height and build for a man his age (45), with a cleanshaven face, bald dome and light complexion.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Miles Marshall Lewis
National Security and Immigrant Rights National Security and Immigrant Rights
The debate over how to protect the United States from terrorism while safeguarding its guiding values rages with particular intensity in immigrant communities.
Dec 19, 2002 / Feature / Donald Kerwin
The People’s Church The People’s Church
Margaret Spillane is a native Bostonian.
Dec 18, 2002 / Margaret Spillane
Religion in the News Religion in the News
With Friends of Israel Like These... Oy Vey!
Dec 18, 2002 / Edward Sorel and Richard Lingeman
Raines of Fire Raines of Fire
New York Times executive editor Howell Raines shares, with his fellow liberal Southerner Al Gore, a talent for driving his opponents batty.
Dec 18, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Death Penalty Talking Points Death Penalty Talking Points
1. It is morally reprehensible to take a life, and it is especially reprehensible for the state to do so.
Dec 18, 2002 / The Nation
Healthcare for All–Now Healthcare for All–Now
If there were a firing squad for political rhetoric, the phrase "single payer" would have to be placed against the wall and blown away.
Dec 18, 2002 / David Corn