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Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink,  civil wars, Asif Ali Zardari

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

Portrait of Charlie Parker

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

Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wandered and Other Stories; Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

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

Wall Street

Battalions of regulatory lawyers burrowed deep in the federal bureaucracy to foil reform.

Jon Cruddas

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

A visit to a forlorn sex shop inspires meditation on the diverse meanings of solidarity, mutuality and community.

Korea seen clearly, the poop on the pipeline, a blast of fresh arctic air, Jared Diamond, Anthony Lewis again

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Why won't the EPA regulate ammonium nitrate? Barbara Boxer wants to know.

Bank accountability activists continue to send a clear message to the big banks: “You can run, but you can’t hide.”

Digital surveillance

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

When will free-traders-gone-wild own up to their complicity in brutal injustices like last week’s deadly factory fire?

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.

bookstore

Walking libraries... a God named “Word”.. what Sherlock Holmes never said... read it here!

The interactive La Ruta dramatizes an experience that many immigrants know too well—and senators could learn from.

Are those hunger strikers I hear? Or is it just the wind?

We can no longer say that no active male athlete has ever come out of closet. Meet the NBA’s Jason Collins.

The high school football coach is on board for two more years—despite the jock-turned-rape culture in his locker room.

Mary Thom

The feminist author and long-time editor of Ms. magazine died tragically in a biking accident.

The difference between rich and poor is stunting economic growth, the mayoral candidate says.

A new study highlights the vital role high African-American turnout played in 2012. Activists say voters were “outraged and energized” over threats to voting rights. Both parties should take notice.

Last year's farm bill stalled because the GOP proposed deep food stamp cuts—and now they want even more.