Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains
It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon
Rhyme and Resist Rhyme and Resist
Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation
Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
Jul 8, 1999 / Feature / Angela Ards
Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers
It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...
Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Rehnquist’s Revenge Rehnquist’s Revenge
William Rehnquist may be the most patient and unyielding radical ever to occupy high office in America.
Jul 1, 1999 / The Editors
Social Security for Women Social Security for Women
Despite the rosy projections and numerical alchemy that proponents employ to push their cause, privatizing Social Security won't build much wealth for women, and it will leave el...
Jul 1, 1999 / Trudy Lieberman
Media Matters Media Matters
A new bride returns from a romantic honeymoon and opens a locked door in the family home, only to discover the mutilated corpses of her husband's six ex-wives.
Jul 1, 1999 / Column / Tara Zahra
Civil Society Civil Society
"Why do you care so much?" said a white friend to me during a debate about suspect profiling. "Don't take it so personally--the police aren't after you in the black middle class.
Jul 1, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor
Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.
Jul 1, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
The Truth About Hate Crimes Laws The Truth About Hate Crimes Laws
It took the death of a young gay white man at the hands of two other young white men to bring the issue of violence aimed at lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people to n...
Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / Richard Kim
Same-Sex Spouses in Canada Same-Sex Spouses in Canada
On May 20, leaving its southern neighbor in the dust, Canada took a breathtaking leap forward in lesbian and gay rights.
Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / E.J. Graff