Maxine Waters

  • Gimme shelter

    Trying to force authorities to open an Air Force base as a shelter, Jesse Jackson and other black leaders picked up 150 evacuees at the squalid New Orleans Airport and headed into the night.
    By Stephen Elliott September 4, 2005

  • "They've got to open the base"

    Louisiana black leaders, along with Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson, want to take Katrina victims to a shuttered Air Force base instead of shelters. And I'm going with them.
    By Stephen Elliott September 3, 2005

  • Chief Parks plays the race card

    Black leaders are rallying behind the ousted LAPD chief. But his tenure marked the triumph of identity politics over reform, and his departure is good news for the city.
    By Charles Rappleye April 17, 2002

  • What Al Gore must do to win

    Joe Conason, Jennifer Dunn, John Judis, Al Franken and a bipartisan panel of advisors tell the vice president how to beat George W. Bush.
    By August 17, 2000

  • The color purple

    Can violet-tinted goddess-worshipping power beads bring Al Gore the success he so craves?
    By Jake Tapper August 16, 2000

  • Oops, she did it again

    Unhappy with Joseph Lieberman's record, Maxine Waters threatens to withhold an endorsement just long enough to make herself the story -- again.
    By Alicia Montgomery August 16, 2000

  • Together at last

    Now that Buchanan is taking his followers over to the Reform Party, the extreme right and extreme left can finally be united in their isolationist vision of the world.
    By David Horowitz November 8, 1999

  • Is black politics dead in California?

    The steep decline in the number of powerful black officeholders could be a sign of the community's political maturity -- or its demise.
    By Anthony York June 23, 1999

  • Good news from teen America

    While we're wringing our hands over Littleton, evidence of a sharp decline in teen birthrates, especially among blacks, shows that adults can make a difference
    By Joan Walsh April 30, 1999

  • Clinton's Star Wars sequel

    The president pays off the military by funding a notorious boondoggle.
    By Christopher Hitchens January 19, 1999

  • Clinton: TV or not TV?

    As the lame-duck House moves toward impeachment, the president counts votes and ponders another national address.
    By Joan Walsh December 9, 1998

  • Media Circus

    The San Jose Mercury News' CIA-crack story: Anatomy of a journalistic train wreck.
    By Thomas Hackett May 30, 1997
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