Society

Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home

Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky

Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains

It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon

Rhyme and Resist Rhyme and Resist

Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

Jul 8, 1999 / Feature / Angela Ards

Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers

It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...

Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor

Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.

Jul 1, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein

Rehnquist’s Revenge Rehnquist’s Revenge

William Rehnquist may be the most patient and unyielding radical ever to occupy high office in America.

Jul 1, 1999 / The Editors

Social Security for Women Social Security for Women

Despite the rosy projections and numerical alchemy that proponents employ to push their cause, privatizing Social Security won't build much wealth for women, and it will leave el...

Jul 1, 1999 / Trudy Lieberman

Media Matters Media Matters

A new bride returns from a romantic honeymoon and opens a locked door in the family home, only to discover the mutilated corpses of her husband's six ex-wives.

Jul 1, 1999 / Column / Tara Zahra

Civil Society Civil Society

"Why do you care so much?" said a white friend to me during a debate about suspect profiling. "Don't take it so personally--the police aren't after you in the black middle class.

Jul 1, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Capitol Crimes Capitol Crimes

If only Columbine High School had posted the Ten Commandments next to its football trophies, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would never have killed anyone.

Jun 24, 1999 / The Editors

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