The Cyber Arms Race Has Begun The Cyber Arms Race Has Begun
Governments are ramping up investment in cyberweaponry as well as cybersecurity, opening a dark new frontier.
Oct 12, 2011 / Feature / Misha Glenny
Cyberactivism From Egypt to Occupy Wall Street Cyberactivism From Egypt to Occupy Wall Street
The battle for the Internet has politicized prankster cybercollectives like Anonymous--and now authorities are cracking down.
Oct 12, 2011 / Feature / Laurie Penny
The GOP’s Deregulation Obsession The GOP’s Deregulation Obsession
The Chamber of Commerce and its Republican allies have launched “the Contract With America on steroids.”
Oct 12, 2011 / Feature / Robert Weissman
The High Cost of Anti-Immigrant Laws The High Cost of Anti-Immigrant Laws
In Georgia, HB 87 is a “giant scarecrow” for immigrant labor, and the result has been hundreds of millions in lost crops.
Oct 12, 2011 / Feature / Greg Asbed and Sean Sellers
Mr. Friedman, Meet Mr. Obama Mr. Friedman, Meet Mr. Obama
The New York Times columnist faults President Obama for failing to do… exactly what he did.
Oct 12, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman
Gandhi and South Africa Gandhi and South Africa
Why was Joseph Lelyveld’s history of Gandhi’s years in South Africa attacked by India’s Hindu right?
Oct 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
Innocents Lost: On Postwar Orphans Innocents Lost: On Postwar Orphans
Tara Zahra explains why orphaned children held a special grip on Europe’s postwar imagination.
Oct 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Holly Case
Letter From a Prisoner Letter From a Prisoner
You, who only write letters in your dreams Hello mother! your son now engraves in his heart letters to send you he would like to send you a snail loving the ground passionately he would like to print burning kisses everywhere, where your steps take you he would like to send you a snail to read your poems on the sand to gather them in a shell and send them to the sea this sea whose azure you share where she rests Hello mother! Have you received the snail? (translated from the French by Doog T. Wood)
Oct 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Abdallah Zrika
Puzzle No. 3211 Puzzle No. 3211
ACROSS 1 Revise text starting at the end, identify high point (8) 5 SS victory dividing French priests (6) 9 Shocking, true version of Maria cut (9) 11 Sixty Minutes introduces one beautiful girl (5) 12 and 16 Actor’s tree-lined avenue Down Under (6,11) 13 Furry mammal returns after a group of doctors drink (8) 15, 23 and 19 Unbridled envy we erase with a night of revelry (3,5,3) 16 See 12 18 Revolting creeps postpone fair (11) 19 See 15 20 We use the Roman variety in 25 or XXV (8) 22 Energetic person’s stimulating Monday (6) 25 Three perfect squares are polite (5) 26 Misplaced equal sign is telling (9) 27 Outspoken knight nails extra duty (6) 28 Gym clothes screen organization or composure (8) DOWN 1 Unsound artistic interpretation in play by Shakespeare (5,10) 2 Sketch plumage and head of swan with reductions (9) 3 She may have said, “I like Ike” or, surprisingly, “I am me” (5) 4 Dang! Headliner retreats (4) 6 She used to escort you among texters, by the trees, in a storm (9) 7 Leap over part of a bank (5) 8 Mistake that could make a shoe uncomfortable? (4,2,3,6) 10 Visiting Dot’s frequent companion in Great Britain at the end of July (6,2) 14 Agent covers the floor with snakes or lizards (8) 16 Primate discussed one type of theater (9) 17 Euphoria about even just the first half of a promotion (9) 21 Shaker’s associate: leader in music again (5) 23 See 15 24 “It’s cold outside!”—university vice president (4) ACROSS 1 & 12 THE + BEAT + LES 1 & 19 anag. 3 HOPPING + JOHN 9 P + LATITUDE 10 BUY(E)R (ruby anag.) 11 anag. 14 “cowered” 17 RABBI + T 22 G(E)ORGES + POMP + I DO + U 25 init. letters 26 HEART + H(R)UG 27 ERIN(GOB + RAG)H (Rhine anag.) 28 O + NO (&lit.) DOWN 1 hidden 2 EX + AMPLE 3 “high coup” 4 PLUMM(I)ER 5 “I sin” 6 G(ABLER)OOF 7 OX + YMORA (moray anag.) 8 N + ORMANDY 13 TWIN + GEING (in egg anag.) 15 DRAG + RACE 16 hidden 18 BRON + CHI (born anag.) 20 opposites 21 Spoonerism of “hung, go” 23 S(AHI)B 24 2 defs.
Oct 12, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Disciplined Filth Disciplined Filth
George Clooney’s The Ides of March, Danfung Dennis’s Hell and Back Again, Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez’s You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days In...
Oct 11, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans