magazine January 20, 2003

Here Comes the Neighborhood

Charlotte and the resegregation of America's public schools.

By Damien Jackson   

Broken People, Broken Promises

Dalits face a new threat from India's Hindu nationalists.

By Jehangir Pocha   

The Graveyard of Secular Politics

Ahmedabad, IndiaóDecember’s watershed elections in Gujarat sent India reeling to the right. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party… more

By Miranda Kennedy   

Funding Terror

Investigating the role of Saudi banks.

Gulf War Legacy

Maj. Doug Rokke is “hot.” No, he’s not sweating. Nor is his physique the object of admiration. He’s… more

Winds of Change?

As Israeli opinion shifts, despair is a constant.

Middle-class Revolt

Venezuelan elites go on strike.

Hip Hop Hysteria

Serious social critics could once dismiss hip hop’s purveyors as a bunch of crude vulgarians extolling ghetto-centric lifestyles.… more

books

The Cheerleader

In page after dreadful page of his latest book, Bush at War, Bob Woodward demonstrates an old adage… more

books

Bombs Away!

An interview with Get Your War On creator David Rees.

Editorial

Rebel Yell

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott’s retroactive endorsement of Jim Crow apartheid, at Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party on December 5, was a… more

Pee First, Ask Questions Later

In the past decade, a veritable Kindergulag has been erected around schoolchildren, making them subject to arbitrary curfews, physical searches, psychological profiling… more