Features

• Civil Reconstruction: What to Do Without Affirmative Action

  Paul Starr

• Gangs in the Post-Industrial Ghetto

  Jerome Skolnick

• Domestic Urges, Foreign Obsessions

  Richard Barnet

• Can Democracy Save Chicago's Schools?

  David Moberg

• The Limits of Legalization

  Elliot Currie

• Dealing with Legalization

  Doug Bandow

• Invisible Woman

  Katherine Tate

  When Clarence Thomas called the Senate hearings a "high-tech lynching," he turned his confirmation into a race-loyalty test for blacks. Once again, the concerns of black women were obscured.

• Race, Gender at the Supreme Court

  Deborah Stone

  In a parody of affirmative action, the Senate failed to assess seriously Clarence Thomas's fitness for the Supreme Court. Casualties include blacks, women, Democrads, and the Court's own moral authority.

• Confessions of an Airline Deregulator

  Mark Kahan

• More Like Them?

  Alan Blinder

• Is There a Democratic Economics?

  Robert Kuttner

• Suite Greed

  Robert Reich

• Follow Through

  Jonathan Cohn