White

  • In defense of race-based rooting

    At the Olympics, you sometimes find yourself rooting for athletes because of their race. And that's OK.
    By Gary Kamiya August 20, 2008

  • Lose pounds, pad your paycheck?

    Overweight white women suffer a significant wage penalty. Research shows it's only getting worse.
    By Carol Lloyd December 13, 2007

  • The Dean machine rolls through the Big Apple

    His supporters are all young and white, but in Bryant Park Tuesday the former governor's campaign felt like the real thing.
    By Nicholas Thompson August 27, 2003

  • Kieslowski's "Three Colors"

    Just when it seemed that European cinema had become fossilized, the great Polish director created the slickest -- and loveliest -- concept album in art-film history.
    By Jonathan Kiefer June 10, 2002

  • Ribisi rising

    Giovanni Ribisi's risumi read like that of every up-and-comer-to-watch this side of John Travolta. Then he attracted the notice of the best directing talents in the business.
    By Jessica Hundley February 18, 2000

  • Confessions of a former self-hating white person

    It took a broken heart to teach me that guilty white liberals aren't the solution to America's racial strife, but part of the problem.
    By Joan Walsh February 17, 2000

  • Black and white and taboo all over

    Hollywood is more phobic than ever about interracial love, but now it's blacks who are putting on the brakes.
    By Charles Taylor February 14, 2000

  • Meet the fundits

    At the Funniest Celebrity in Washington contest, pundits and pols kick out the phat comedy jams ...
    By Amy Reiter November 5, 1999

  • Navigating Nairobi

    For a Western woman, waiting on a rainy day at a matatu stand illuminates some inescapable truths.
    By Alicia Rebensdorf September 29, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    You pay your handyman more than your nanny?! Plus: Pop psychology Mach test too close to Cosmo quiz; "broadband warrior" Jermoluk is wrong about wireless.
    Letters to the Editor September 20, 1999

  • Bitter and blacker

    Chris Rock, the new heavyweight champ of humor, hits where it hurts.
    By Cintra Wilson June 22, 1999

  • Crying wolf

    Ellis Cose's Newsweek cover story set out to celebrate America's racial good news. So why did it wind up singing the same old despairing song?
    By Joan Walsh June 11, 1999

  • When white means "weak"

    For urban high schoolers, it isn't news that whites are a minority in California.
    By Russell Morse March 19, 1999

  • Justice in Jasper

    King murder trial report: In the face of naked evil, the races in Jasper, Texas, come together.
    By Faulkner Fox February 26, 1999

  • Sound Salvation: Comically incorrect

    Chris Rock riffs on unfunny old themes--in "Roll With the New."
    By Sarah Vowell September 5, 1997

  • Why liberals can't think straight about race

    Caught in a tortured dance of guilt and voyeurism, the right-thinking gatekeepers in the media and academia have perfected ways to avoid seeing the collapse of their racialist politics.
    By Jim Sleeper August 19, 1997

  • Nothing to Lose

    The black-white buddy movie "Nothing to lose" is a lazy exercise in tired racial cliches.
    By Laura Miller August 18, 1997

  • interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 5, 1997

  • Interracial adoption: One couple's story

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 4, 1997

  • Robin Hood Lives

    But taking from the rich to
    give to the poor is exactly what it
    sounds like: robbery.
    By David Horowitz May 24, 1997

  • The Awful Truth

    The horror -- only $35 for a full day
    By Cintra Wilson August 26, 1996

  • The Awful Truth

    Paint it white
    By Cintra Wilson June 10, 1996

  • No Coloreds Need Apply

    Politically correct housecleaning
    By Sheila Peabody February 24, 1996
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