Tavis Smiley’s Covenant Tavis Smiley’s Covenant
Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Ma...
Sep 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander
Linking to New Orleans Linking to New Orleans
As New Orleans rebuilds, so does its Internet community. Here's a list of the Big Easy's liveliest sites.
Sep 1, 2006 / Feature / Michael Tisserand
Republicans and Race Republicans and Race
One of the few appeals of compassionate conservatism was the hope that it might mark the end of the Republican's race-baiting Southern strategy. Anyone who still believes that has...
Aug 31, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Undone by Neoliberalism Undone by Neoliberalism
Before the storm, neoliberalism shaped the social and economic inequities of New Orleans; after Hurricane Katrina, it worsened them by making government the tool of corporations an...
Aug 31, 2006 / Feature / Adolph Reed Jr.
Don’t Mourn, Link Don’t Mourn, Link
After the storm hit, the Internet was one of the few reliable sources of information for New Orleans. A year later, it remains a critical tool for citizens' participation in their ...
Aug 31, 2006 / Feature / Michael Tisserand
New Orleans Forsaken New Orleans Forsaken
One year later, how will we come to terms with what happened when Hurricane Katrina washed up the disenfranchised most people, including the President, have tried to forget?
Aug 31, 2006 / Feature / Gary Younge
Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
The Chinese Evolution The Chinese Evolution
Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Poetry, From Noun to Verb Poetry, From Noun to Verb
Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense of dislocation.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella