Category Archives: Magazines

Mutts at the Dog Show: Why racial categories are fading away in America

June 2003

Here’s a typical encounter: I walk into a store, or meet someone at a party, and we engage in the usual pleasantries. Then, as though we are now intimate—for it is nothing if not an intimate question—I am asked, “Where do you come from?” I look different, unplaceable. Together my dark hair, aquiline features, dark eyes, and tan skin, combined with my American bearing and fluid English, make me a little weird. I’m at least intriguing enough for complete strangers to barge into my personal history. (more…)

Posted in Magazines, Other Magazine

Child’s Play

June 2003

The Missile Defense Agency Coloring Book, an eleven-page booklet that opens with a portrait of Ronald Reagan, the godfather of missile defense, cements the Agency’s position as the premier domestic supplier of little-boy daydreams. (more…)

Posted in Magazines, Mother Jones

Colony in a Cup

Spring 2003

Next time you lift a steaming mug of Java to your lips, pause for a moment and take a look into the obscure depths of this mysterious and compelling potion. Why are you drinking it? Because you like it, probably and—admit it—because of the mild addiction you have developed for it. But how did this come to be your morning drug of choice? How can something so exotic—an infusion of the charred seeds of a tropical rainforest shrub—have become so ubiquitous and commonplace? And who are the people who see to it that it is always there when your craving calls? (more…)

Posted in Gastronomica, Magazines