How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People
Politicians don’t just need the billionaire media mogul’s cash—they need his newspapers, magazines and TV networks, too.
Aug 10, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman
Inhuman Bondage: On Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights Inhuman Bondage: On Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible treats modern slavery as an international institution with national histories.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Shelf Life Shelf Life
On Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elias Muhanna
Sentimentality or Honesty? On Charles Taylor Sentimentality or Honesty? On Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
Break That Wall Break That Wall
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz’s The Interrupters; Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon; Jon Favreu’s Cowboys and Aliens; David Yates’s Harry Potter and the Deat...
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Why Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Crisis Should Matter to All Educators: Interview With Dr. Rudy Acuna Why Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Crisis Should Matter to All Educators: Interview With Dr. Rudy Acuna
Award-winning historian and educator Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña discusses the Tea Party’s chilling attack on his work.
Aug 10, 2011 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers
Puzzle No. 3203 Puzzle No. 3203
ACROSS 1 Cheesy position? (5) 4 Baroque era’s eight legacies (9) 9 Dukakis encountered in Washington (7) 10 Republican politician to cut welfare (3,4) 11 and 12 Someone who can do everything, like 3 (11,3) 13 Margot Chapman embraces one kind of journalism (6) 15, 20 and 28 ’70s TV show is celebrity heaven and a home for animals (7,3,5) 17 Turned right, disturbing Odetta (7) 18 Top story: altercation beginning in New York prison (6) 20 See 15 22 Charlie may come before October’s opening celebration (5,2,4) 25 Adelphi reconstructed landing spot…(7) 26 …inside test tube—that’s insignificant (7) 27 Ribald performance of wild party’s song (5,4) 28 See 15 DOWN 1 Look in coats for meals (6) 2 Auditioning is difficult in public (6,3) 3 Sass an irrational painter (5) 4 Main Street with tough balancing act (9) 5 Take popular English thief (5) 6 Mutant battles L.A. in The Gastropod Killer (5,4) 7 General Weaver’s dark mood (5) 8 With a serious demeanor—like a famed violinist? (7) 14 What a playful, thrifty chef might do to a puttanesca recipe? (3,1,5) 15 By the sound of it, good enough to pass the class and stay afloat (9) 16 Engineer solicits a collectivist (9) 17 Fish for bugs (7) 19 Rising religious figure’s symbol and mantra: “Do-Re-Mi” (6) 21 Bit of lacquer found in skillful pottery (5) 23 Tennis champ has zero (love) at first (5) 24 Woman’s correct hits (5) ACROSS 1 DADDY + WAR (rev.) + BUCKS 9 BE + LUSH + I 10 COT(TAG)E 11 2 defs. 12 PI(NBA)LL 14 EX + HALE + D 16 LEE + CHE + S 18 hidden 20 S + HEER (here anag.) + STOCKING + S 24 E(PSIL)ON (lisp rev.) 25 P + LASTER (alters anag.) 26 anag. DOWN 1 DEB + T 2 D + ALLIANCE 3 YES(HI)VA 4 A + GIN + G 5 anag. 6 CA(TFI)SH (fit anag. 7 hidden 8 MESS + I DO + R 12 POLISH ED 13 L(U)SITANIA (Italians anag.) 15 LIT + I + GATOR 17 HUR(D)LER 19 EPI(C)ARP (papier anag.) 21 hidden 22 CUP + ID 23 hidden NBA TEAMS: Bucks, Nets, Kings, Spurs, Heat
Aug 10, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Letters Letters
Vouching for vouchers; Elizabeth Warren for president; three kinds of Republican idiots; Borgesian grammar
Aug 10, 2011 / Our Readers and Peter Schrag
The Real Problem with the Congressional ‘Super-Committee’ The Real Problem with the Congressional ‘Super-Committee’
The scope of the debt-reduction committee, rather than who’s on it, is what should most worry progressives.
Aug 10, 2011 / Ari Berman
Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy
The economy is a shambles, saved from a free fall only by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented promise of free money for banks for at least two years.
Aug 10, 2011 / Robert Scheer