AltWeeklies Wire
In its bigotry, North Carolina makes Jesse Helms proud—againnew
We're having a bigot's revival and a bully's carnival in North Carolina, and the infection may be spreading.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
06-04-2012 |
Commentary
Florida: The Weirdest Place in America—and a Perfect Stage for the GOPnew
Even without Herman Cain and that baleful basilisk Mrs. Bachmann, the Republicans refused to be upstaged by the cavalcade of nightmares that's standard fare in the Sunshine State. They showed us they belonged here.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
03-22-2012 |
Commentary
The Tea Party is Steeped in Angernew
Steeped in anger, its members live in a world of paranoia and rumor
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
05-06-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Tea Party
On the Late Molly Ivins and Her Crusade Against Corporatized Americanew
My old Columbia classmate Molly Ivins has been gone for three years now. Things have slipped fast since her funeral. Even Molly, with her keen nose for mendacity, might be amazed by the ethical dry rot that's eating away at the business of news.
Tears of a Clown: On the Glenn Beck Phenomenonnew
The ex-Top 40 disc jockey, recovering drug addict and alcoholic, convert to Mormonism and the National Rifle Association, is American popular culture at its most incomprehensibly weird and offensive. He's also a huge success, a hit, a phenomenon -- a star.
Lessons from the Henry Louis Gates Casenew
Profiling appears to be a universal experience in nonwhite America. The clowns who toss coats and car keys are no Klansmen, of course, just grotesque boors who have no idea of the damage done when one brain-dead gesture robs another person of his dignity.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
08-28-2009 |
Race & Class
The Historic 2008 Election ... Without John Edwardsnew
The Democratic Party, the U.S. Senate, the state of North Carolina, America, the legal profession -- everything that ever provided him with an identity is going on without him.
White Denial: Obama, Race and America's Selective Memorynew
Obama's election would be a stunning step forward. John McCain's election would be a stunning step backward, at a time when America can ill afford another false step. What's wrong with Obama? Not much that I can see, not compared to what's wrong with you if you think his election is a threatening proposition.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
07-31-2008 |
Commentary
One Nation, Under Guns: How America Has Gone Madnew
American guns now outnumber Americans, and increase the gap by killing 30,000 of us every year.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
04-17-2008 |
Commentary
The Elephants in the Room: How the GOP Lost its Waynew
The Republican Party traded Abraham Lincoln's legacy for George Wallace's constituency. It sold its soul to the devil for a chance to rule America.
Stop the Presses: The Paperless Newspapernew
It's hard to dispute that the newspaper is doomed in the long run, as an inefficient and wasteful medium that technology can easily improve upon -- but while the newspaper is expendable, the tradition it represents and the information it supplies are not.
Tags: media
Remembering Molly Ivinsnew
All of the fancy eulogies made a Texas-sized sendoff she richly deserved -- but her inimitable style and personality, magnified in a media culture that worships personality, sometimes obscured what was most important about Molly Ivins.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
03-15-2007 |
Commentary
The Sheriff of Nottingham Returnsnew
People are working harder, earning less, and the rich are raking it in -- where's Robin Hood when we need him?
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
10-04-2006 |
Commentary
Duke Rape Case: Sympathy for the Devils?new
Whatever happens in the Duke rape case, it is a devastating charge, one that Duke and other schools compromised by coach cults and athletic imperialism will fail to address at a terrible price.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
06-29-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Shame Is for Sissiesnew
The John Bolton nomination to the United Nations is the Republican fist with its middle finger held erect.
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
06-09-2005 |
Commentary
