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Puzzle No. 3383

Puzzle No. 3383 Puzzle No. 3383

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Lead the way to overcome depression? (3,4)  5 Detroit athlete, gaining height, gets increasingly tense (7)  9 With…

Dec 3, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Cookie Monster, Hello Kitty, and Super Mario in Times Square.

What Happens to the Right of Public Assembly in the Absence of Public Space? What Happens to the Right of Public Assembly in the Absence of Public Space?

The mentality of traffic engineering cripples mass transit, and free speech, in New York City.

Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin

Sylvester Stallone (left) as Rocky Balboa and Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson in Creed.

Rocky Without Reaganism Rocky Without Reaganism

Creed offers a surprisingly daring depiction of the Rocky universe as seen from the other side of the tracks.

Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To Tell of Bodies Changed

To Tell of Bodies Changed To Tell of Bodies Changed

Having desired little more than the arrival of the little more that arrives, outside our window a cypress of model proportions. Its patience seems to widen the nights we sleep in R…

Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

John G. Roberts (left), Chief Justice and chief critic of the Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights and the Second Redemption Voting Rights and the Second Redemption

Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot argues that democratic rights can never be taken for granted.

Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley

December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley

“One conscientious reporter counted the marble steps as he followed a girl whose head jarred sickeningly as she was dragged down.”

Dec 3, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Border Characters

Border Characters Border Characters

The Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera talks about the first English translation of one of his novels, the Mexica afterlife, and Dante.

Dec 2, 2015 / Aaron Bady

Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman Works the Connections Steve Coleman Works the Connections

The composer and saxophonist’s hybrid jazz fuses the sounds of the world.

Dec 2, 2015 / David Hajdu

Myanmar nationals hold up their passports outside the embassy of Myanmar in Singapore

Flattened for a Price Flattened for a Price

In her new book The Cosmopolites, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the evolution of citizenship and the rise of a new form of statelessness.

Dec 2, 2015 / Fatima Bhutto

To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents

To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents

Once something threatens who you are and what you love, you have no choice but to take action.

Dec 1, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

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