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In defense of race-based rooting

By Gary Kamiya — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

At the Olympics, you sometimes find yourself rooting for athletes because of their race. And that's OK.

Lose pounds, pad your paycheck?

By Carol Lloyd — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Overweight white women suffer a significant wage penalty. Research shows it's only getting worse.

The Dean machine rolls through the Big Apple

By Nicholas Thompson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

Kieslowski's "Three Colors"

By Jonathan Kiefer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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.

Ribisi rising

By Jessica Hundley — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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.

Confessions of a former self-hating white person

By Joan Walsh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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.

Black and white and taboo all over

By Charles Taylor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Hollywood is more phobic than ever about interracial love, but now it's blacks who are putting on the brakes.

Meet the fundits

By Amy Reiter — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

At the Funniest Celebrity in Washington contest, pundits and pols kick out the phat comedy jams ...

Navigating Nairobi

By Alicia Rebensdorf — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

For a Western woman, waiting on a rainy day at a matatu stand illuminates some inescapable truths.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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.

Bitter and blacker

By Cintra Wilson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Chris Rock, the new heavyweight champ of humor, hits where it hurts.

Crying wolf

By Joan Walsh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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?

When white means "weak"

By Russell Morse — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

For urban high schoolers, it isn't news that whites are a minority in California.

Justice in Jasper

By Faulkner Fox — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

King murder trial report: In the face of naked evil, the races in Jasper, Texas, come together.

Sound Salvation: Comically incorrect

By Sarah Vowell — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Chris Rock riffs on unfunny old themes--in "Roll With the New."

Why liberals can't think straight about race

By Jim Sleeper — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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.

Nothing to Lose

By Laura Miller — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

The black-white buddy movie "Nothing to lose" is a lazy exercise in tired racial cliches.

interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2

By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.

Interracial adoption: One couple's story

By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.

Robin Hood Lives

By David Horowitz — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

But taking from the rich to
give to the poor is exactly what it
sounds like: robbery.

The Awful Truth

By Cintra Wilson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

The horror -- only $35 for a full day

The Awful Truth

By Cintra Wilson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Paint it white

No Coloreds Need Apply

By Sheila Peabody — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Politically correct housecleaning