November 15, 2002 : City Limits

Big Idea: Machine Dreams

David Jason Fischer | November 15, 2002

What if someone held an election without political parties and no one showed up?

City Lit: Whiteness Control

Hakim Hasan | November 15, 2002

The New White Nationalism In America: Its Challenge to Integration by Carol Swain, and Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past, by David Roediger

Making Change: Two Turntables and a Megaphone

Hilary Russ | November 15, 2002

Hip hop activists are rightly proud of their local victories fighting prison expansion and school cuts, but there are more questions than answers about what’s next for the nascent movement.

NYC Inc: Spare Some Change?

Ben Esner | November 15, 2002

A fiscal crisis is a good time to figure out how the city can better coordinate the fight against poverty–without spending an extra penny.

The mentally ill can’t live in nursing homes. The fragile elderly can’t live in their own filth. There’s a city agency that’s supposed to help them all stay healthy and housed–and it may be New York’s most neglected bureaucratic backwater.

Coney Island

Coney Island Hig

Annia Ciezadlo | November 15, 2002

The same blend of magnetism and relentlessness that made Aida Leon a successful drug dealer have made her Coney Island’s messiah of clean living. Can her small army of former addicts turned activists save the neighborhood too?