September/October 1997

Changing Colors

• America's shifting demographic landscape requires seeing beyond black & white.

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DEPARTMENTS

• Editors' Note
• Backtalk

OUTFRONT

Blood money; Nicole Hollander's rough justice; Top 10 activist schools.

HOME/PLANET

By Leora Broydo
A greener shade of paint.

WELLBEING

By Michael Castleman
Pesticides may harm more than just pests.

OUTSPOKEN

China expert Orville Schell.

HOT!MEDIA

Resources for advanced hellraising.

TOBACCO WARS

By Ted Rall
Pesticides may harm more than just pests.

FEATURES

Interview by Marilyn Snell

The author of The Autobiography of My Mother tells us why happiness is overrated.

A MOTHER JONES INVESTIGATION:

By Richard Blow

Behind a key GOP strategist's "character" message lie allegations of wife-beating.

CHANGING COLORS

By Michael Lind

How liberals got race wrong, and what they can do to make it right again.
PLUS: Writers, scholars, and critics share their favorite statistics about race.

By Bebe Nixon with photographs by Nicholas Nixon

Inside Boston Latin, the nation's oldest public school, as affirmative action wanes.

By Art Spiegelman

The award-winning artist and Holocaust chronicler has a confession to make.

By Walter Truett Anderson

How will we know who we are in 30 years? Four scenarios for the future.

By Thomas Moore

Why we need to bring sexuality out of the gutter and back into our public lives.

By Sandra Tsing Loh

A German mom, a Chinese dad, American kids, a few terrorists, and a '56 Buick.

Cover illustration by Nick Dewar
Photograph of Newt Gingrich by Gary Boas/AdMedia/Newscom