Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age
In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael E. Staub
Ten Papers We Like Ten Papers We Like
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Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
Copyright Monopolies Copyright Monopolies
Big Media won another battle in the escalating war over copyright on January 15, when the Supreme Court upheld a 1998 law extending copyright terms by twenty years, to life plu...
Jan 30, 2003 / Andrew L. Shapiro
Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter
The worse the state treats kids, the more the state's prosecutors chase after inoffensive "perverts" in the private sector who have committed the so-called crime of getting sex...
Jan 30, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Class Warfare Class Warfare
My son collects my change--the random coins that come from little daily transactions, the pennies, nickels and dimes that build up in my pockets.
Jan 30, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
A Win at Cracker Barrel A Win at Cracker Barrel
A lonely Cracker Barrel restaurant stands alongside the highway that runs near my house.
Jan 23, 2003 / M.V. Lee Badgett
Cries of ‘Reverse Racism’ Ring Hollow Cries of ‘Reverse Racism’ Ring Hollow
Affirmative action, so long distorted by its critics, makes an easy political target.
Jan 22, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Roe in Rough Waters Roe in Rough Waters
Thirty years later, abortion's political terrain is more complicated than ever.
Jan 22, 2003 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner