Political activity

Fireside cheat

by Leah Maloy,

Affirmative reaction

by Stanley Eugene Fish, James Bailey, Lani Guinier, Elizabeth Hoffman, Edited by Bill Wasik,

When campus Republicans play the diversity card

by Rudyard Kipling,

Art by Steve Mumford,

by Daniel Glick,

Feeling betrayed in Iraq, part-time U.S. soldiers may mutiny at the polls

by Kevin Baker,

The G.O.P.'s plan to militarize our culture

by Roger Scruton,

by Thomas Frank,

Hello Wall Street, goodbye social security

by John Hildebrand,

A company town gives its farmers the business

by Tom Wolfe,

Why no one is celebrating the second American century

by Paul Roberts,

Our craving for sugar starves the Everglades and fattens politicians