Scenes From a Bahraini Burial Scenes From a Bahraini Burial
Two years after the uprising in Bahrain began, protesters are still dying in the streets as the rest of the world looks the other way.
Feb 20, 2013 / Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Dave Zirin: Where ‘The Nation’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ Collide Dave Zirin: Where ‘The Nation’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ Collide
Sports Illustrated, which rarely writes book reviews, recently covered Nation sports editor Dave Zirin’s Game Over.
Feb 20, 2013 / Press Room
Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan ‘Peace Dividend’ Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan ‘Peace Dividend’
Providing services to fight poverty overseas is a much better bang for our buck than stationing soldiers there.
Feb 20, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Offers Summer Opportunities for Student Organizers Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Offers Summer Opportunities for Student Organizers
Two recent DC Fellows describe how the program transformed their careers.
Feb 20, 2013 / StudentNation / Naomi Ahsan, Jessica Morris, and StudentNation
Defend Walmart Warehouse Workers Defend Walmart Warehouse Workers
Implore Walmart CEO Mike Duke to stand with the Walmart warehouse workers in Chino.
Feb 20, 2013 / NationAction
At War With Art At War With Art
The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James W. Loewen
A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson
On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art? Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art?
MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Hollywood Ending? Hollywood Ending?
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3273 Puzzle No. 3273
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad. ACROSS 1 Act of giving new vigor to accelerate the translation into a Romance language? (14) 10 Plays music idly, upsetting old ones (7) 11 Opposite a Roman general, a Roman numeral (7) 12 Little men exclaimed, “I say, brother—you’re telling a fib!” (9) 13 Jumped with broken plate (5) 14 Express apology for garment (4) 15 Trying to return thanks: seductive (10) 18 Insecure before the onset of tooth decay? (10) 21 Sports league will not be allowing starters (4) 24 Cure apnea for a song (5) 26 River tree confused dog (9) 27 Guest of the first organized event featuring me as subject (7) 28 I’m American, having internalized animal energy (7) 29 Sarge is changing course (9,5) DOWN 2 Come apart over Cunningham’s online business (1-8) 3 Lives on the tip of Lanai and Oahu, for instance (6) 4 Strike a sailor in the ear (7) 5 Invent one devious enigma (7) 6 Mammal and insect slip away together (8) 7 Ancient locality is part of region, I assume (5) 8 Form of ID doorkeeper brought up (4,3) 9 Creeps cut the head off birds (6) 16 Eggs go bad when flipped under hotel pioneer (9) 17 Attractive Orlando team surrounding goal (8) 18 Pop-Tarts: they might be used in drug manufacture (7) 19 Redesign 14 with Yale student and Middle East native (7) 20 Releasing agreement with inventor’s initial at the end? No good (7) 22 A hybrid alternative to down (6) 23 Weakling with large ecstasy habit, in part (6) 25 Concluding words in outspoken voice (5) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3272 ACROSS 1 ABSO(LUTE)LY (LA boys anag.) 6 hidden 10 DOG + MA 11 anag. 12 CERTAINL + Y (clarinet anag.) 13 hidden 14 2 defs. 16 anag. 19 ORP(HAN)A(G)E (opera anag.) 21 rev. hidden 23 DRE + AM 24 O + KEY + DO + KEY 26 DISC + RED + IT 27 A + TRIA[l] 28 AID + A 29 anag. DOWN 1 AB + DUCT 2 rev. 3 LE(AKA + G)E 4 TAR(ANT)UL + A (ultra anag., &lit.) 5 LO + AMY 7 LA TE(CO)MER (rev.) 8 O + FCOURSE (refocus anag.) 9 [s]TIFFIN[g] 15 2 defs. 17 EL + EM + EN + TAL[k] 18 GOO + DID + E[xtr]A 20 AD + MIRE 21 dream is anag. 22 BY + PASS (spas anag.) 24 alternate letters 25 KAR[t]MA (rev.)
Feb 19, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto