The Cops Are Watching You The Cops Are Watching You
September 11 is being used as a reason to build up police intelligence units.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
‘Foreign’? ‘Suspicious’! ‘Foreign’? ‘Suspicious’!
Osmín, a Cuban trucker, is living in Florida legally--but that didn't matter to the department of motor vehicles. When he was stopped on May 2 by a policeman who wan...
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Will Evans
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
For more than a century, a recognizable pattern existed among those migrating to New York City: They came first either through Ellis Island or up from the American South, and m...
May 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Theodore Hamm
The Mullahs of Marriage The Mullahs of Marriage
Although former Vice President Quayle's legacy may not be one for the history books, he will certainly be remembered for the day he took on television's Murphy Brown.
May 15, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Regressive Progressive? Regressive Progressive?
As chairman of the fifty-nine-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has ...
May 9, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Europe’s Unwelcome Guests Europe’s Unwelcome Guests
Resentment against immigrants, even those seeking asylum, is at the boil.
May 9, 2002 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
When Is a Coup a Coup? When Is a Coup a Coup?
On April 11, 2002, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was ousted in an ill-fated coup attempt. On April 14 he returned in triumph to the presidential palace. What to call the ...
May 9, 2002 / Scott Sherman
Germany’s Cold Shoulder Germany’s Cold Shoulder
Immigrant workers fuel the ecomony, but still they're treated with suspicion.
May 9, 2002 / Feature / Alisa Roth
Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You
Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman
Militants on the Steppes Militants on the Steppes
It was an early November morning when I met Gairam Muminov on the steps of a courthouse on the outskirts of Tashkent, the sprawling capital of Uzbekistan. He was leaning against a...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Raffi Khatchadourian