Here Are All the Ways People Are Dying at Work Here Are All the Ways People Are Dying at Work
Workers die because those in power look the other way.
Apr 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen
April 29, 1992: Four LAPD Officers Who Beat Rodney King Are Acquitted, Prompting Riots April 29, 1992: Four LAPD Officers Who Beat Rodney King Are Acquitted, Prompting Riots
“Rodney King is the symbol that links unleashed police racism in Los Angeles to the crisis of black life everywhere.”
Apr 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Bernie Sanders Readies a ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Presidential Bid Bernie Sanders Readies a ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Presidential Bid
“America does not belong to the billionaire class,” he says, “it belongs to all of us.”
Apr 29, 2015 / John Nichols
Power and Piety Power and Piety
Is the promotion of violence inherent to any religion?
Apr 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Nirenberg
His Own Çukurova His Own Çukurova
Orhan Pamuk might be Turkey’s most-talked-about author, but Yaşar Kemal remains its most loved.
Apr 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Piotr Zalewski
Notes on Kampf Notes on Kampf
Is the well-being of the cultural middle class the key to American creativity?
Apr 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eugenia Williamson
Sacred Hate Sacred Hate
O my hate, so majestic saintly, pure, and angelic bless my excess with a fat caress make me bow and make me proud. Humped by humble squires proud to be living sans Desire sans Goodness, sans Faith sans sun’s caressing grace. O my hate, grandiloquent shield agitate my soul to infinite zeal beyond other harms concealed. Hate wins, hate resounds!, armor ’gainst a vile amour that defrauds all— seven deadly Sins of my ardor! After CRUZ E SOUSA (Afro-Brazilian, c. 1898)
Apr 28, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Charles Bernstein
Shelf Life Shelf Life
All solutions are temporary in today’s digital market, and no successful revenue model is immune from disruption.
Apr 28, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
Puzzle No. 3361 Puzzle No. 3361
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 ” Barb”: that is one choice among terms of endearment (5) 4 Through crash, ban my foes (2,5,2) 9 What you might be doing in the apartment as malfunctioning Net breaks up a call (7) 10 Hamlet opposing sick era (7) 11 Did he know all about Eve in the “morning after” commercial? (4) 12 Gandhi’s last neutral robe is something drawing interest (10) 14 Strangely, the sting becomes more constrained (8) 16 Gladiator, possibly restricted near Mideastern country (5) 19 Long, thick hair finally upset the artist of Olympia (5) 20 Crazy antics preceding Marty’s last two symbols for holiness (8) 22 Appalling lack: Ben-Hur getting time off to eat (5,5) 25 Vagabonds after high school, gone with the wind (4) 27 Womanizer returns, ultimately unforgiven with a casual acknowledgment around outskirts of Juneau (3,4) 28 Person from Shakespeare, in love, facing tense greeting (7) 29 Schindler’s list of characters lost independent and Republican to drink in European region (9) 30 Prize found in Argo’s cargo, which was earned by the 5 that appears in each clue (5) DOWN 1 The sound of music from Bach’s pen (6) 2 Make leather, then do it again twice, with different covers coming out of Africa (9) 3 Titanic hit ice while maintaining power (4) 4 Recruits porters outside grand hotel (9) 5 Film’s standard procedure: covering the life of Emile Zola (5) 6 Everyone repeat and say, “Mrs. Miniver,” perhaps (10) 7 Seattle’s west side story is trite (5) 8 Disturbed, if gentle—like the best years of our lives (8) 13 Presidential residence in Casablanca? (5,5) 15 Angling so craftily for an event where ordinary people make their voices heard (4-5) 17 I’m able to misread Chicago, originally, as pertaining to a biochemical process (9) 18 Rocky, dim slope collapses (8) 21 What I might have to take when going my way amid stampede to Uruguay (6) 23 Patton in ‘thirty-five, capturing roughly 11 percent (5) 24 Extend a contract with actress Russo on the waterfront (5) 26 Man seen in The Godfather, Part II (4) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3360 ACROSS 1 LOCO + MOTION 6 PAG-E (rev.) 10 PAR + TNER (rev.) 11 EY(ELI)DS (dyes anag.) 12 YE + ATS (anag.) 13 anag. 14 CON + TEMP + LATE 17 & 18 SUN + DRY 19 CORN + ERST + ORE 21 anag. 24 rev. 25 REDBO (anag.) + OK 26 D(ROUGH)T 27 pun 28 A NEST + HE + TIC DOWN 1 LI(PSY)NC 2 anag. 3 [v/M]-ENUS 4 “perm taper” spoonerism 5 hidden 7 ALIT + O 8 [p]EPSI + LON[g] 9 anag. 15 ES(CARGO)T 16 ARE + AC + ODES 17 S(POT)LIGHT 18 DI(AGRA)M 20 anag. 22 TO(DA)Y 23 [s]TA[r] + KEN 24 2 defs.
Apr 28, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto