Drones, Defense and Diplomas Drones, Defense and Diplomas
University leaders and government officials are collaborating on drone research, provoking troubling questions about privacy, academic independence and economic profit.
Dec 4, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Max Ocean
Fast Food Strikes Hit 100 Cities Thursday Fast Food Strikes Hit 100 Cities Thursday
Workers are demanding $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
Dec 4, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
How Ivy League Universities Are Failing Us on Climate Change How Ivy League Universities Are Failing Us on Climate Change
Despite widespread student organizing, university presidents are still reluctant to divest from fossil fuels.
Dec 4, 2013 / Laura Flanders
Plainspoken: On Mark Morris Plainspoken: On Mark Morris
How a choreographer’s love for the basic truths of the body has remained uncompromising.
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Helios Helios
Strong horses, Percherons, bred for imperturbability and speed: Aethon, Eous, Pyrois, Phlegon, what names to call a conflagration by. Two decades with the force, and you’d little use for people, but horses, that was a different matter: strong horses, swift as shadows lengthening across the tile bed, a father could not hold them, how could a god.
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Jernigan
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
Does John Gray counsel anything more than avoidance of the ideological excesses he scorns?
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Isaac Chotiner
Old Boys Old Boys
David O. Russell’s American Hustle; Spike Lee’s Oldboy
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3306 Puzzle No. 3306
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Dec 4, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
A Daughter’s Memory A Daughter’s Memory
Three decades after World War II, a veteran returns to Japan on a quest of kindness.
Dec 3, 2013 / Michele Willens