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Books and the Arts

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

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News and Analysis

Relatives show pictures of missing garment workers during a protest following th

As I saw on a reporting trip to Bangladesh, Rana Plaza was a disaster waiting to happen.

Jon Cruddas

Jon Cruddas, who’s now leading a comprehensive policy review, says he wants to renew the party’s roots in English radicalism.

Soybeans

A throwback is just that, even if it is shrouded in organic hemp cloth.

MoMA

In defiance of its mission to preserve important works, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to raze the Folk Art building.

Myanmar police

Buddhism is marked by concern for the welfare of all “sentient” creatures. But when it is harnessed to ethnic intolerance and extreme nationalism, it can turn violent.

Digital surveillance

Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.

Anwar al-Awlaki

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

A homeless family

An already-bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

Eric Alterman

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