Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks
In a sickening display, Putin’s security forces unleash barbarism as a stark warning to others.
Feb 19, 2014 / Dave Zirin
High Time for a Robin Hood Tax High Time for a Robin Hood Tax
A properly implented FTT can benefit the economy from top to bottom.
Feb 19, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ukraine’s Deadly Crackdown Stokes Tensions Between the US and Russia Ukraine’s Deadly Crackdown Stokes Tensions Between the US and Russia
It’s a tragedy made worse by America’s overreaching.
Feb 19, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Whistler’s Battles Whistler’s Battles
Ambitious beneath his pose of indolence, James McNeill Whistler was the most contradictory of artists.
Feb 19, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Big MoMA’s House Big MoMA’s House
MoMA’s new expansion plans represent avant-gardism at its most deracinated.
Feb 19, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Snapshot: Syria’s Double Refugees Snapshot: Syria’s Double Refugees
Residents prepare to leave the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, on February 4. Tens of thousands of Palestinians—who were either expelled from or are the descendants of those expelled from their original homes in 1948 and 1967—have now fled Syria’s civil war.
Feb 19, 2014 / SANA
Letters Letters
Hunger games?… Snowden: necessity defense… “permission to fail”… “Czars & Samovars” redux…
Feb 19, 2014 / Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3315 Puzzle No. 3315
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Feb 19, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe) Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe)
The brief detention of Pussy Riot members is only the latest in a series of oppressive arrests at this Olympics.
Feb 18, 2014 / Alec Luhn