Melissa Harris-Perry: How ‘The Help’ Commodifies Black Women’s Suffering Melissa Harris-Perry: How ‘The Help’ Commodifies Black Women’s Suffering
How does the movie The Help "photoshop" American history?
Feb 27, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Harris-Perry
Peter King Defends NYPD Monitoring, Plans More Hearings on Islam Peter King Defends NYPD Monitoring, Plans More Hearings on Islam
The New York congressman will have more hearings on Muslim radicalization in America, despite statistics that show a waning threat.
Feb 24, 2012 / George Zornick
Student Privacy and the PATRIOT Act Student Privacy and the PATRIOT Act
More than a decade after Congress passed the PATRIOT Act, its varied implications are still unraveling.
Feb 24, 2012 / StudentNation / Uzma Kolsy
The Majority-Majority Future The Majority-Majority Future
The definition of “white” will grow and expand as the country diversifies.
Feb 23, 2012 / Jamelle Bouie
Ari Berman: Behind the Republicans’ Racialized Redistricting Strategy Ari Berman: Behind the Republicans’ Racialized Redistricting Strategy
Republicans are trying to turn their party into the “white party” and the Democratic party into the “black party.”
Feb 15, 2012 / Press Room
Israel’s New Left Goes Online Israel’s New Left Goes Online
The brash webzine +972 is challenging a political and media culture that has moved steadily to the right.
Feb 15, 2012 / Feature / Sarah Wildman
I’m Every Woman: Whitney Houston, the Voice of the Post–Civil Rights Era I’m Every Woman: Whitney Houston, the Voice of the Post–Civil Rights Era
Dismissed as inauthentic and overlooked by rock critics, Houston inspired a rainbow connection of Gen X and Y singers to belt across the colorline.
Feb 14, 2012 / Daphne A. Brooks
Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism
How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?
Feb 8, 2012 / Column / Eric Alterman
Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona
The authors of Arizona’s new law want to collapse Latino identity into white American mythology.
Feb 8, 2012 / Column / Gary Younge
What’s Left Out of Black History Month Celebrations What’s Left Out of Black History Month Celebrations
More than a quarter of African-Americans live in poverty. During Black History Month, we should speak truthfully about the economic legacy that drives this inequality.
Feb 6, 2012 / Sean Thomas-Breitfeld