How Romney Beat Gingrich in Florida How Romney Beat Gingrich in Florida
More favorable demographics—and effective attack ads.
Feb 1, 2012 / Ben Adler
Adelson Adelson
(Sung by Newt Gingrich supporters to the tune of “Edelweiss,” from The Sound of Music) Adelson, Adelson, Your donations do cheer him. We who root For our Newt Smile whenever you shmeer him. Absent your vow That you would endow Newt’s campaign with plenty, Adelson, Adelson, He’d be dead as Pawlenty.
Jan 31, 2012 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Sure, Apple Could Build the iPhone Here Sure, Apple Could Build the iPhone Here
Steve Jobs told Obama that Apple manufacturing jobs are never coming back to the US. Really?
Jan 31, 2012 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Obama Stands Up to Bishops. Finally. Obama Stands Up to Bishops. Finally.
Shouldn't it be obvious that birth control coverage is about women's health, not “religious freedom”?
Jan 31, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt
How the GOP Is Resegregating the South How the GOP Is Resegregating the South
Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.
Jan 31, 2012 / Feature / Ari Berman
Transpartisan Politics on the Plains Transpartisan Politics on the Plains
The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?
Jan 31, 2012 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander
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