Why Major League Baseball Owners Will Cheer the Death of Hugo Chavez Why Major League Baseball Owners Will Cheer the Death of Hugo Chavez
The late president wanted to protect Venezuelan players shipped off to the US—not exactly something the MLB empire eagerly embraced.
Mar 6, 2013 / Dave Zirin
Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua
The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.
Mar 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Anatomy of a Failed Campus: What Happened At NYU’s Tisch Asia? Anatomy of a Failed Campus: What Happened At NYU’s Tisch Asia?
Amid the university's rapid international expansion, there is a story of an NYU campus that failed. So what happened in Singapore? It depends who you ask.
Mar 6, 2013 / StudentNation / Zoë Schlanger and StudentNation
Endless Representation: On Giorgio Griffa and Thomas Nozkowski Endless Representation: On Giorgio Griffa and Thomas Nozkowski
Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.
Mar 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz
Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?
Mar 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
INFOGRAPHIC: How Universal Preschool Is an Economic Boon to Working Mothers INFOGRAPHIC: How Universal Preschool Is an Economic Boon to Working Mothers
Working parents will benefit enormously from an affordable, quality place to send their kids.
Mar 6, 2013 / Bryce Covert
R.I.P. Hugo Chavez (1954–2013) R.I.P. Hugo Chavez (1954–2013)
A man who did a lot of good for a lot of people.
Mar 6, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Reading Bob Woodward Reading Bob Woodward
A smoking-gun demonstration of how the formerly great reporter trims his sails according to the power politics of the moment.
Mar 6, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Beware Obama’s Dealmaking Beware Obama’s Dealmaking
Do we really want the president to make a deal on the sequester that will be harder to undo later?
Mar 6, 2013 / George Zornick
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.
Mar 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Lucy McKeon