The Supremes and Gay Rights

A closer look at Lawrence v. Texas

The Changing Face of AIDS

Young black men bear the brunt of the epidemic

Our Living Constitution

Lawrence v. Texas gives new meaning to American freedom

Learning from SARS

As world health officials struggle to defeat the latest global epidemic, they should be preparing for the next one

Against Liberal Intervention

During the early phase of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, I came across a scathing critique of the... more

Intervene with Caution

Three years ago, U. N. Secretary General Kofi Annan asked, “If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault... more

How Badly Do You Want to Win?

Do you want a different president in 2004? I’m asking this as a serious question, not a rhetorical... more

books

Is There Hope for Africa?

Being held up at gunpoint seems like a rite of passage for those who frequent Africa south of... more

books

The World Was Not Enough

The role of intellectuals and ideas in the project of empire has once again come to the fore.... more

Will You Laugh for Me, Please?

On April 8, Charles R. Douglass, the inventor of canned laughter—the artificial jollity that accompanies comical moments on... more

Smash and Grab

Ang Lee’s The Hulk is the kind of rambling, overstuffed psychodrama that only a true artist could... more

Help Wanted

While the economy and the job market continue to stagnate, there seems to be no shortage of odd... more

Editorial

Prescription for Privatization

The new prescription drug legislation would be especially bad for poor people.

The Third Coast

Affirmative Denial

Few Americans know of the legacy that racial slavery and Jim Crow apartheid has bequeathed to African-Americans

Power Mad

Sells Like Teen Spirit

Selling “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” to 11-year-olds doesn’t seem particularly honest to me.