Whistler’s Battles Whistler’s Battles
Ambitious beneath his pose of indolence, James McNeill Whistler was the most contradictory of artists.
Feb 19, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Big MoMA’s House Big MoMA’s House
MoMA’s new expansion plans represent avant-gardism at its most deracinated.
Feb 19, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Snapshot: Syria’s Double Refugees Snapshot: Syria’s Double Refugees
Residents prepare to leave the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, on February 4. Tens of thousands of Palestinians—who were either expelled from or are the descendants of those expelled from their original homes in 1948 and 1967—have now fled Syria’s civil war.
Feb 19, 2014 / SANA
Letters Letters
Hunger games?… Snowden: necessity defense… “permission to fail”… “Czars & Samovars” redux…
Feb 19, 2014 / Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3315 Puzzle No. 3315
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Feb 19, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe) Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe)
The brief detention of Pussy Riot members is only the latest in a series of oppressive arrests at this Olympics.
Feb 18, 2014 / Alec Luhn
Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Important Month for Obamacare Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Important Month for Obamacare
The Nation’s editor celebrated the recent successes of the Affordable Care Act in a roundtable on ABC’s This Week.
Feb 18, 2014 / Press Room
Mychal Denzel Smith: We Live in a ‘Racist Society’ Mychal Denzel Smith: We Live in a ‘Racist Society’
Just by virtue of being born black in America, young men like Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin face violence daily.
Feb 18, 2014 / Press Room
Will a Minimum Wage Hike Really Cost Jobs? Will a Minimum Wage Hike Really Cost Jobs?
The Congressional Budget Office is out of step with most economists on job loss projections as a result of a minimum wage hike.
Feb 18, 2014 / George Zornick