Jesse Jackson

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  • "God Made Bush President"

    As Palm Beach County prepares to hand count its ballots, the Bush faithful take to the streets.
    By Jake Tapper November 12, 2000

  • "We've had a wreck here"

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson and thousands gather to protest the controversial ballot that caused many Gore supporters to vote for Pat Buchanan.
    By John Lantigua November 9, 2000

  • Disenfranchised

    Young black men get singled out among drug offenders for the harshest punishment, then they lose their right to vote. With laws like this, who needs Jim Crow?
    By Arianna Huffington October 2, 2000

  • The civil rights movement is dead, RIP

    Black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticize racialing profiling in the legal system, but they espouse the same logic in their own politics.
    By David Horowitz September 5, 2000

  • Hypocrisy convention

    The Democrats railed at big corporations with one fist and took their money with the other, while Al Gore's speech invoked the class warfare politics of yesteryear.
    By David Horowitz August 21, 2000

  • Don't ask, don't tell

    Neither Democrats nor the media wants to talk about past -- or current -- tensions between blacks and Jews.
    By Jake Tapper August 16, 2000

  • No more lies

    Americans see clearly that the war on drugs isn't working. Now some of our leaders are starting to open their eyes.
    By Arianna Huffington August 10, 2000

  • Denial is holding blacks back

    The hanging of a Mississippi teen was found to be a suicide, not a lynching, but black leaders keep fanning the flames of racial paranoia.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson August 3, 2000

  • Has lynch law returned?

    Whether it was murder or suicide, the grim spectacle of a Mississippi teen's death shows that interracial dating is still taboo -- in the minds of blacks as well as whites.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson July 13, 2000

  • Cynthia Plaster Caster: Art with staying power

    She made her name memorializing the most prized equipment of famed rockers like Hendrix. Three decades later the work's still hard, but satisfying.
    By Wendy Mitchell July 12, 2000

  • Imagination unleashed in all its perverse glory

    The Web: Let the Puritans figure out how to jam their mealy corks into the dike!
    By Camille Paglia April 5, 2000

  • What Hillary Clinton won't say

    Rudy Giuliani has dramatically reduced the number of shots fired by police at civilians in New York, as well as the number of people killed by anyone there.
    By David Horowitz April 3, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    The divide between blacks and jobs isn't digital Plus: How to improve the election process; was "Kiss Me, Kate" worth reviving?
    Letters to the editor March 6, 2000

  • Shame on liberal hypocrites!

    By exploiting a 6-year-old's tragic murder, liberals reveal the moral idiocy of their ideology.
    By David Horowitz March 6, 2000

  • Is the digital divide a black thing?

    As Jesse Jackson opens his Silicon Valley office, some black tech execs say the issue is class, not race.
    By Lee Hubbard March 2, 2000

  • I'm dreaming of the white room

    President Oprah? Godfather Trump? Noah Wyle will see you now? Starstock.com survey sez ... fans are nuts; after 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up. Plus: Jann Wenner jams, Yoko Ono swings ... it must be office-party season.
    By Amy Reiter December 18, 1999

  • Retiring line

    After 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up.
    By Amy Reiter December 16, 1999

  • Call me undependable

    Accident-prone: Ally Sheedy and Jason Priestley spill. Plus: He may be slick and oily, but Jesse was no SEAL. And: Gwynnie sings!
    By Amy Reiter December 6, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz's "revisionist" understanding of race relations
    Plus: The politics and art of Rage Against the Machine; telling AOL what to do with its spam-fest.
    Letters to the Editor November 30, 1999

  • Throw away the key!

    Jesse Jackson has betrayed the civil rights movement by defending young thugs who need to be punished, not babied.
    By David Horowitz November 22, 1999

  • Invasion of the body snatchers

    When Pat Buchanan made his unholy alliance with Lenora Fulani, it wasn't the "left" he embraced but a strange, secretive group of disrupters known as the "Newmanites."
    By Joe Conason November 16, 1999

  • Cry for me, Puerto Rico

    The next big issue after the clemency controversy is the growing pressure to throw the U.S. Navy off its test bombing range.
    By Susan Crabtree September 22, 1999

  • What makes the Donald run?

    Get ready for Teamster Nation! George W. and Marcus Aurelius ... not the same guy. Also, Mrs. Jagger balks at progeny's lips.
    By Amy Reiter September 15, 1999

  • The American way of bigotry

    As we divide along racial lines, aren't we surrendering the fundamental idea of what it means to be American?
    By David Horowitz September 13, 1999

  • Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do

    The NAACP's ludicrous idea to sue gun manufacturers is yet another attempt by the left to avoid personal responsibility for some individuals' bad behavior.
    By David Horowitz August 16, 1999
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