Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later
In the summer of 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, and scores of other US cities exploded in racial violence. Forty years later, the impact is still palpable.
Jul 17, 2007 / Feature / Peter Dreier
Mourning in America Mourning in America
As the Supreme Court rules public schools cannot take voluntary action to overcome racial inequality, what's surprising is the lack of outcry.
Jul 12, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Racists & Robber Barons Racists & Robber Barons
Rather than build a unified culture in a diverse society, the conservative Gang of Five that now dominates the Supreme Court is polarizing the country.
Jul 12, 2007 / Editorial / David Kirp
Zyklon B on the US Border Zyklon B on the US Border
A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
Jun 21, 2007 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
A New Green Card Deal A New Green Card Deal
History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.
Shots in the Dark Shots in the Dark
When guns claim lives where any middle-class child might be, America mourns. But in barrios, projects and trailer parks, it's as if the crime never happened.
Jun 14, 2007 / Beneath the Radar / Gary Younge
Coming to America Coming to America
The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.
Jun 7, 2007 / Feature / Felicia Mello
SI Cooks the Books SI Cooks the Books
Sports Illustrated's "all time" team is unfairly skewed to honor major league players from the segregation era at the expense of equally deserving players from the Negro League.
May 31, 2007 / Editorial / Jonathan Cohen
Nutter Wins in Philadelphia Nutter Wins in Philadelphia
A favored Democrat's mayoral primary win divides a city between those who support his hardball anticrime tactics and minorities who see them as a blueprint for racial profiling.
May 17, 2007 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
Agent of Intolerance Agent of Intolerance
Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.
May 16, 2007 / Feature / Max Blumenthal