Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators
On the streets, at the Vatican, at the G-20, in Congress and in front of the US Treasury building: The call is rising for a financial transactions tax. It will get a lot louder in ...
Oct 26, 2011 / John Nichols
Yes, Virginia, There Is Income Inequality—Will the Supercommittee Admit It? Yes, Virginia, There Is Income Inequality—Will the Supercommittee Admit It?
A new study on income inequality might make some Republicans on the supercommittee awful uncomfortable today.
Oct 26, 2011 / George Zornick
Is Rick Perry’s Iowa Ad for Voters or Donors? Is Rick Perry’s Iowa Ad for Voters or Donors?
Perry's first television commercial is all about his favorite topic: unleashing the energy industry.
Oct 26, 2011 / Ben Adler
Memo to Lawrence Lessig: The Tea Party Is No Answer for Occupy USA Memo to Lawrence Lessig: The Tea Party Is No Answer for Occupy USA
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig is trying to get Occupy USA to build alliances with the Tea Party. He's wrong.
Oct 26, 2011 / Dave Zirin
This Is Just to Say: On William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say: On William Carlos Williams
A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams.
Oct 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Out of the Vinyl Deeps catalogs Ellen Willis’s pop years.
Oct 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Solving for X: On George F. Kennan Solving for X: On George F. Kennan
Unwrapping the enigma of the career diplomat who wrote the Long Telegram.
Oct 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
Longview Labor on the Line Longview Labor on the Line
Workers at a port in Washington State are reviving strike tactics that have become nearly extinct in American labor struggles—and they may just win.
Oct 25, 2011 / Josh Eidelson
Just as They Are Just as They Are
The forty-ninth edition of the New York Film Festival.
Oct 25, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3213 Puzzle No. 3213
ACROSS 1 Snack served by fiesta compañero (4) 3 Aim ____ at close range (5-5) 9 Handles anxieties without a hint of finesse (4) 10 Overall responsibility: you pay a tax when you cross it? (4,2,4) 12 Herb originally overtook retreating wild ass (7) 13 Tried, vs. challenging and treacherous core of adversity!! (7) 14 Bring up acclaim with a late start (5) 16 Baggage of wench antedates magic (9) 19 After opening, men start to tint panel for a coat of arms (9) 20 Immersed in bile: umbilicus and part of the intestine (5) 21 Bottles a small amount of retsina in coffee shops (7) 23 Insignificant rent-collecting in end of month (7) 25 Republicans invading a vehicle passage with a commercial aircraft (5,5) 26 Ivins discussed in The Nation (4) 27 Prosecute a criminal in the universe beyond earth’s atmosphere (5,5) 28 Song that man vocalized (4) DOWN 1 and 18 After Independence Day without much light, raise racket about beginning of night time—this might be next after a sequence of words taken from Across solutions (3,6,9) 2 Wish misfortune upon dogs, the source of evil (5) 4 Cool genie disturbed geological period (9) 5 Seen in the mirror, incorporating Democrat’s requirements (5) 6 Splits, if splitting to polish up positively charged particles (12) 7 Liquor with a drop of absinthe, as six eat up (4,5) 8 lang, having taken in view, entered (5) 11 Adopt the story and speak (4,3,5) 15 Make sense of housepainter prettifying interior (9) 17 Before a stimulant, pet is in a stupor (9) 18 See 1 21 Tropical tree around California: orange (5) 22 Doctor helps lug (5) 24 Gland making Emma lose big, at first (5) ACROSS 1 & 11 2 defs. 6 anag. 10 SWA([t]HI[s])L + I (laws rev.) 12 B(Y + P)ASSES 13 anag. 15 & 20 anag. 16 LIMO + N 18 HOSE + A 23 WE + EVIL 25 anag. 27 LEO(TAR)D (Dole anag.) 28 D + ETOURS (routes anag., &lit.) 29 “sticks” 30 HELL + OK + [w]ITTY DOWN 1 ROSE + BAY 2 2 defs. 3 REIS + SUE 4 M(AIDE)N + AUNT (tuna anag.) 5 even letters 7 HO[t] + UND 8 anag. 9 S + CRAWL 14 anag. 17 2 defs. 18 HG + WELLS 19 hidden 21 NUN + AT + AK 22 STOPS + B[erkele]Y (spots rev.) 24 E + BONY 26 [h]EDGE
Oct 25, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto