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Puzzle No. 3522

Puzzle No. 3522 Puzzle No. 3522

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Passport notation’s a tautology if its first part is flipped, with a line across the middle (4)  3 Greedy slug, not…

Jan 23, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Agnès Varda Had to Fight

Agnès Varda Had to Fight Agnès Varda Had to Fight

Her cinematic archive is a manifesto against complacency.

Jan 23, 2020 / Max Nelson

Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad

Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad

We talked to the philosopher about her recent book The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and her thoughts on contemporary global politics.

Jan 22, 2020 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie

“It seemed to me that ideologically he [Putin] was one of our people,” the former Russian oligarch says in the new Alex Gibney documentary Citizen K.

Jan 22, 2020 / Lucy Komisar

Demonize the Eco-Wise

Demonize the Eco-Wise Demonize the Eco-Wise

ignore this…

Jan 21, 2020 / Jen Sorensen

Trump’s Threats to the Iranians

Trump’s Threats to the Iranians Trump’s Threats to the Iranians

He said we would target their cultural sites. The next day, he had much less surety. Still, thinking of what might be culture to him, They’re beefing up golf course security.

Jan 21, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips

The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips

For the living, water. And now, you’re all the wells mined for their depth. All of the silence & all of the alls I can conjure. You are not in the living room. You are not in y…

Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Andrés Cerpa

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slave...

Jan 20, 2020 / Greg Grandin

Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage

Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage

American Spy examines the intersections between spycraft and living in America as a black person.

Jan 20, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson

Puzzle No. 3521

Puzzle No. 3521 Puzzle No. 3521

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle.1 ACROSS2  1 Song about law and a member of Congress, to friends (10)3  6 Three or four found in safe workplace (1,3)4  9 Boys…

Jan 16, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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