The NFL Is More Comfortable With Concussions Than Conscience The NFL Is More Comfortable With Concussions Than Conscience
At a massive rally for Colin Kaepernick outside NFL headquarters, speakers called out the league’s hypocrisy.
Aug 24, 2017 / Miguel Salazar and Dave Zirin
When Abbie Hoffman Threw Money at the New York Stock Exchange When Abbie Hoffman Threw Money at the New York Stock Exchange
To denounce the Vietnam War and bring about the “death of money,” the protest took a playful turn.
Aug 24, 2017 / Jon Wiener
Steve Bannon’s Exit: All Power to Jared Kushner? Steve Bannon’s Exit: All Power to Jared Kushner?
Amy Wilentz on the boy wonder, John Nichols on Trump after Bannon, and Joshua Holland on Russia and democracy.
Aug 24, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Yom Kippur Preview Yom Kippur Preview
Next to Trump as he praised anti-Semites Stood two Jews named Mnuchin and Cohn. No demur came from them, then or since. And for that can they ever atone?…
Aug 24, 2017 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Crossing Fingers, Kissing Hands Crossing Fingers, Kissing Hands
In its making, in its quip and rhyme, manicured or not, the hangnail enshrined— crossed, ringed, a rabbit’s paw, solemn fingers, vowed fingers and a hand… the palm knows. The wipe,…
Aug 24, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Marc Vincenz
The Made Thing Considers Itself The Made Thing Considers Itself
Made the night, made the day, made deep the waters, made the waters go away, made the crow and the threshing sound, made the earth and the shovel, made the dove and the olive sprig…
Aug 24, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Dan Beachy-Quick
Letters From the September 11-18, 2017, Issue Letters From the September 11-18, 2017, Issue
Hacking democracy… Make America democratic… Dems: remember the base… Action and words… In defense of prog rock…
Aug 24, 2017 / Our Readers
Puzzle No. 3440 Puzzle No. 3440
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Prime location Sting ruined for politician’s residence (3,7,2) 8 Late site of WWI battle, mostly captured in Old E…
Aug 24, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Mathias Énard’s Alternative Cosmopolitanism Mathias Énard’s Alternative Cosmopolitanism
Ranging across the Mediterranean, his novels map out the intermediate space between East and West.
Aug 24, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy