January 14, 2011: President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Flees Tunisia, Marking the First Victory of the Arab Spring January 14, 2011: President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Flees Tunisia, Marking the First Victory of the Arab Spring
In the winter of 2011, a revolution begins across the Arab world when Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali resigns following protests against government abuse and corruption....
Jan 14, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
The Lower Depths The Lower Depths
Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales is a carnival of melancholy, melodrama and the polymorphously perverse.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Inoculation as Metaphor Inoculation as Metaphor
Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a slipshod book full of brilliant moments.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Speed Kills Speed Kills
Has digital technology destroyed leisure?
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Less Is More Less Is More
The dense details in Berlin’s memorial museums overwhelm the stories they try to tell.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein
Letters Letters
Mutualize Uber?… what a mensch!… too broad a brush… make ’em care!… nobody does it better…
Jan 13, 2015 / Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky
Elizabeth Warren Says She Won’t Run, but ‘Draft Warren’ Activists Plan to ‘Change Her Mind’ Elizabeth Warren Says She Won’t Run, but ‘Draft Warren’ Activists Plan to ‘Change Her Mind’
The senator rejects a presidential bid—again—but her backers are undeterred.
Jan 13, 2015 / John Nichols
Puzzle No. 3351 Puzzle No. 3351
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog,Word Salad
Jan 13, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
On Bill Moyers’s Legacy On Bill Moyers’s Legacy
Following a career of more than forty years, Bill Moyers retires.
Jan 13, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
On the Death of the Irreplaceable Mike Marqusee On the Death of the Irreplaceable Mike Marqusee
My sportswriting mentor and hero Mike Marqusee has died. If you don’t know his work, here is a time to learn it.
Jan 13, 2015 / Dave Zirin