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What’s Causing the Huge Spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma?

What’s Causing the Huge Spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma? What’s Causing the Huge Spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma?

Many scientists say that disposal wells used during hydraulic fracturing and other methods of oil and gas extraction are the culprit.

Feb 19, 2014 / Steven Hsieh

De Blasio’s Pick of Wiley Means Practical Paths to Lofty Goals

De Blasio’s Pick of Wiley Means Practical Paths to Lofty Goals De Blasio’s Pick of Wiley Means Practical Paths to Lofty Goals

The mayor’s new counsel has wedded incisive analysis of race and poverty to practical policy ideas that would make government a positive force across communities.

Feb 19, 2014 / Jarrett Murphy

Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks

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 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 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 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 Big MoMA’s House

MoMA’s new expansion plans represent avant-gardism at its most deracinated.

Feb 19, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin

Unthroned

Unthroned Unthroned

Are we all Westeros now?

Feb 19, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

Snapshot: Syria’s Double Refugees

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

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