Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison? Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison?
The US policy of criminalizing undocumented immigrants has led innocent deportees to be jailed and maligned in their home countries.
Jan 31, 2012 / Feature / Deepa Fernandes and Abdulai Bah
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: On ‘El País’ The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: On ‘El País’
El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.
Jan 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Lucas’s Tuskegee Experiment Lucas’s Tuskegee Experiment
George Lucas’s Red Tails, Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness.
Jan 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3226 Puzzle No. 3226
Click here to download a print-friendly PDF version of this page. ACROSS 1 Presbyterians converted pop star (7,6) 9 Nearly remember one that’s tagged within concert (7) 10 Live inside of obese eccentric (7) 11 Choice of Ford models with a large vessel (5) 12 Episcopal stirred a soft drink (5-4) 13 Came down hard and saluted (6) 14 Drifting agnostic goes to hell (8) 17 Satanism defiled part of a log (8) 19 Nook with a flame limiting start of conflagration (6) 22 It might come from a pig: kind of spray on individual’s face (9) 24 One charmer in a picture (5) 26 Neoconservative paragon incorporating 1970s self-help movement’s overall pattern (7) 27 For example, Hemingway’s faction hijacking stripped Buick (7) 28 Allowance is imminent between Sunday and Monday, at one day’s close (8,5) DOWN 1 Yogi’s degree concealing blunder (5) 2 Incorporated in sour, irrational attack (9) 3 Sean cut crumbling fruitcake (7) 4 Named bicycle “Pterodactyl’s Guts” (6) 5 Ring up Winnie to express impatience (4-4) 6 Air Force exhibitions for business (7) 7 I make notes, perhaps! (5) 8 Last bit of fuel caught in foreign throttle (8) 13 Internet location’s tribute involving record (4,4) 15 Quarantine lunatic into a silo (9) 16 Mixed morass or tedious excerpt (8) 18 Repeat something on a list, nearly at speed (7) 20 Sort of Islamic philosophy of church-state separation (7) 21 Makes a pass at Shinto stranger (4,2) 23 Sends assignments (5) 25 Sorrowful poem set amid the old uprising (5) ACROSS 1 LACE + RATIONS 9 ASSE[n]T 10 CLASS + MATE 11 2 defs. 12 FE + MALE 14 F(ACSIM)ILES (scam I anag.) 16 F[our] + IV + E (&lit.) 18 [i]S + AN E 19 LE + F(TWINGE)R 22 PAT + RON 23 P + R(E)AMBLE 26 ELUC + I + DATE (clue anag.) 27 ID + I(O)M 28 anag., &lit. DOWN 1 “list” 2 CAT-HOLIC 3 RECON + SIDE + R 4 anag. 5 [j]OUSTER 6 anag. 7 [p/L]AYOFF 8 2 defs. 13 YES + T(E)RY + EAR 15 CONS + TRUES 17 TI + RAM + I + SU (rev.) 18 SUP(P)ER 20 “roomy” 21 NO VICE 24 B(RIB)E 25 T(AX)I
Jan 31, 2012 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Letters Letters
From the grassy knoll; democracy is coming to town; phenotype in the pea patch; acclaim suduko frenzy without you, I hear
Jan 31, 2012 / Our Readers and Charles Taylor
Iraq Vet Derek McGee: ‘The Most Unlikely Occupier’ Iraq Vet Derek McGee: ‘The Most Unlikely Occupier’
Iraq veteran and former Wall Street banker Derek McGee—now an active participant in the Occupy Movement—said on Countdown with Keith Olbermann that he felt Occupy prote...
Jan 31, 2012 / Press Room
Occupy Colleges Organizes Solidarity Wednesday Occupy Colleges Organizes Solidarity Wednesday
A national call to action to protest police violence at Occupy Oakland.
Jan 31, 2012 / StudentNation / Diana Delgado
Deafening Republican Silence on Financial Fraud Task Force Deafening Republican Silence on Financial Fraud Task Force
One of President Obama's boldest moves to date is getting a free pass from Republicans.
Jan 31, 2012 / George Zornick
Romney Still Can’t Clear 50 Percent Hurdle Romney Still Can’t Clear 50 Percent Hurdle
When the candidate with the most endorsements and money can't get half of Florida GOP voters to back him, that signals problems in November.
Jan 31, 2012 / John Nichols
Eric Schneiderman: The Right Man, the Right Moment Eric Schneiderman: The Right Man, the Right Moment
Schneiderman not about to let himself be co-opted for Obama’s re-election bid.
Jan 31, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel