The Boondocks The Boondocks
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Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Aaron McGruder
Black Unlike Me Black Unlike Me
Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselv...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John McMillian
Wall Street’s Soiled Hands Wall Street’s Soiled Hands
The capital unscrupulously pumped from poor neighborhoods by way of predatory loans whizzes along a high-speed financial pipeline to Wall Street to be used for investment. "It's a...
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray
Hunting the Predators Hunting the Predators
Outraged at lenders who prey on the poor, activists are striking back.
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray
The Thrill Is Gone The Thrill Is Gone
It's easy to rephrase Tolstoy's opening to Anna Karenina so it describes junkies, who all share an essential plot line: Who and how to hustle in order to score. But in the world o...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Death and Taxes 2010 Death and Taxes 2010
"How long do I have?" James Pierson asked, trying to maintain eye contact with the man behind the desk. "Three months, eleven days, seven hours and forty-three minutes," David Ba...
Jun 27, 2002 / Calvin Trillin
A Crisis of Faith Brought On by Martha Stewart A Crisis of Faith Brought On by Martha Stewart
Agnostic's what he was, had always been. He'd never prayed a prayer, confessed a sin. He's thinking, though, if Martha goes to jail, On Sundays henceforth he will never fail ...
Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Who’s Afraid of Cornel West? Who’s Afraid of Cornel West?
Writing in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Israeli History about Israeli revisionism, Mark Lilla of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought makes the obse...
Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Against Israeli Apartheid Against Israeli Apartheid
The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century...
Jun 27, 2002 / Ian Urbina and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Death, Juries and Scalia Death, Juries and Scalia
Amid all the recent assaults on the Bill of Rights, including the latest trashing in the USA Patriot Act and the denial of habeas corpus to citizens, amid all this, in the span...
Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn