Time to Get Tough, Mayor Mike Time to Get Tough, Mayor Mike
Ever wonder why you can still get a manicure for $5 in parts of New York City? Or why waiters here are mostly white, while all the busboys are immigrants? All this is explained i...
Jun 21, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
Voices in Conflict Voices in Conflict
When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
Jun 21, 2007 / Feature / Emily Douglas
SiCKO Is Boffo SiCKO Is Boffo
In 1971, Edgar Kaiser, the son of the founder of Kaiser Permanente, one of the first big HMOs, went to see John Ehrlichman, a top aide to President Nixon, t...
Jun 21, 2007 / David Corn
Cleaning Up Congress & Campaigns Cleaning Up Congress & Campaigns
As the post-Watergate presidential financing system collapses and Congressional elections grow more expensive by the millions every cycle, Senators Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter be...
Jun 21, 2007 / Ari Berman
Anatomy of a Murder Anatomy of a Murder
Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.
Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Madman With Broom Madman With Broom
The realist crows return
at earliest morning.
And the madman with broom,
Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michael Palmer
Company Man Company Man
Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.
Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola
The Improbable Moralist The Improbable Moralist
Leonard Michaels's fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.
Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Phillip Lopate
Hong Kong, Ten Years After Hong Kong, Ten Years After
Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
School’s Out School’s Out
The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
Jun 21, 2007 / Feature / LynNell Hancock