Voices of Conscience in Israel Voices of Conscience in Israel
Why do patriotic members of an elite combat unit refuse to serve in the occupied territories?
Feb 7, 2012 / Feature / Eyal Press
Occupy Wall Street and a New Politics for a Disorderly World Occupy Wall Street and a New Politics for a Disorderly World
In a volatile era, OWS’s participatory democracy makes more sense than top-down government.
Feb 7, 2012 / Feature / Carne Ross
Awakenings: On Margaret Sanger Awakenings: On Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger’s legacy continues to haunt debates about abortion and family planning.
Feb 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
Reading John Leonard: A Tribute Reading John Leonard: A Tribute
For the critic John Leonard, “books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves.”
Feb 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow
The Complete History of Every One: On Zoe Strauss The Complete History of Every One: On Zoe Strauss
Zoe Strauss has turned the streets of Philadelphia into a museum for her photography.
Feb 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Flesh Underneath: On ‘Every Twelve Seconds’ The Flesh Underneath: On ‘Every Twelve Seconds’
Timothy Pachirat’s gut-wrenching account of slaughterhouse work.
Feb 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Ted Conover
Puzzle No. 3227 Puzzle No. 3227
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE PDF ACROSS 1 Comedy team is evergreen and resilient (6,3,5) 10 Railroad that is one of the three R’s (7) 11 McKellen follows head-over-heels Thai island resident (7) 12 Directed and edited media (5) 13 She washes, as the Spanish disrobe (9) 14 Ugly female novelist makes cheese (10) 17 Soft melody for two (4) 20 Border divided Germany down the middle (4) 21 Unusual pain killers: they are used in The Three Musketeers and The Seven Samurai (3,7) 23 Locals finally outsquat stranger where things are now (6,3) 25 Stray wantonly with lecher (5) 27 Determined opening game piece (2-2-3) 28 Rani ruined belt in African city (7) 29 Strenuous questioning for a PhD, often (3,5,6) DOWN 2 Fear Capone with a weapon (5) 3 Reluctantly to begin with, I pardon lousy bit of weather (8) 4 Sanctioned part of a trip with Muhammad, ending in London (9) 5 Former Indian leader exalting primordial chicken? (5) 6 Bob, for one, is rigorous about intelligence operations up front (6) 7 Encore “Repeat something on a list, nearly at speed (7)” for anyone who solved last week’s puzzle (9) 8 Americans can be jerks (5) 9 Altering integral for mathematical figure (8) 15 Complex procedure to equip Gertrude or Jocasta, for example (9) 16 Country inhabited by sleepy yes-men? (4,2,3) 18 Hold back to filter again? (8) 19 Carol, about long-running TV show: “It’s first-rate” (8) 22 In Chad, Rupert reversed seclusion (6) 23 Look what I did: at first, successfully resurrected slain Arab leader (5) 24 Letters in marquee reveal title of William Burroughs opus (5) 26 Endeavored to overlook source for valuable collection (5) ACROSS 1 anag. 9 REC(IT)AL[l] 10 OF F(BE)AT 11 A OR T + A 12 anag. 13 2 defs. 14 anag. 17 anag. 19 A + L(C)OVE 22 PEPPER + ON + I 24 I + MAGE 26 G(EST)ALT 27 S([b]UIC[k])IDE 28 S(PENDING)M + ONE + Y DOWN 1 B(ERR)A 2 INC + URSION (in sour anag.) 3 anag. 4 hidden 5 POOH + POOH (hoop rev.) 6 AF + FAIRS 7 anag. (&lit.) 8 STRANG(L)E 13 HOM(EP)AGE 15 anag. 16 hidden 18 ITE[m] + RATE 20 anag. 21 anag. 23 2 defs. 25 E(LEG)Y (rev.)
Feb 7, 2012 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
What We Learned From Planned Parenthood What We Learned From Planned Parenthood
Standing up for our principles and refusing to let the right-wing echo chamber define the debate—it works.
Feb 7, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Occupy Press Freedoms Occupy Press Freedoms
At least 50 journalists have been arrested covering the Occupy movement since it began last September.
Feb 7, 2012 / Peter Rothberg