What’s Wrong With the Comcast/Time Warner Merger
If it’s not blocked, a single corporation will be able to dictate digital communications and media content for decades to come.
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March 10-17, 2014 Issue
Cover art by: design by Robert Best
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Editorial
Why Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt
A society hot for punishment is quick to play judge and jury. But there’s nothing feminist or radical about pretending to know the truth.
Column
Whodunit? Liberals!
From celebrity deaths to the crisis of the middle class, it’s all their fault.
Freelance Stop-and-Shoot
The murder of Jordan Davis—like that of Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin and so many others—reflects a racist culture in which the black body is considered fair game....
Letters
Letters
Hunger games?… Snowden: necessity defense… “permission to fail”… “Czars & Samovars” redux…
Feature
Where Have All the Lobbyists Gone?
On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying money is flooding into Washington, DC, like never before. What’s going on?
Books & the Arts
Whistler’s Battles
Ambitious beneath his pose of indolence, James McNeill Whistler was the most contradictory of artists.
Big MoMA’s House
MoMA’s new expansion plans represent avant-gardism at its most deracinated.
Political Theaters
From Yes Minister and The Thick of It to Veep, Scandal and House of Cards, British political satire and its American progeny reveal ...
