Jack Newfield Jack Newfield
Our friend Jack Newfield, who died on December 20, was a fight fan. Although his heart was with the peace movement, his love for this violent sport was appropriate in a number of...
Dec 22, 2004 / The Editors
Stanton’s Wisdom Stanton’s Wisdom
One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Natio...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’ Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!" Nope, not the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dec 22, 2004 / Thomas A. Dutton and Rev. Damon Lynch III
Wrong for Civil Rights Wrong for Civil Rights
When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media's harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry's purported combativeness distracted rea...
Dec 22, 2004 / Susan Eaton
An Arab Surrealist An Arab Surrealist
The Springs of Adonis (now also known as the River Ibrahim) run through the Byblos region of Lebanon down through steep gorges to the Mediterranean.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Irwin
Goodbye to All That? Goodbye to All That?
On European anti-Semitism, old and new.
Down and Out in Discount America Down and Out in Discount America
It's the poor who make Wal-Mart tick.
Dec 16, 2004 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Stuff These Stockings (Please) Stuff These Stockings (Please)
Another holiday season--and only a year after the last one. How did that happen?
Dec 16, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Why They Hated Gary Webb Why They Hated Gary Webb
Few spectacles in journalism in the mid-1990s were more disgusting than the slagging of Gary Webb in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Dec 16, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Red Sluts, Blue Sluts Red Sluts, Blue Sluts
The Golden Girls and Sex and the City are available on DVD. Desperate Housewives airs Sundays at 9 pm EST on ABC.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein