Society

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

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