Jul 27 Arizona Dispatch: An Artist’s Perspective on SB 1070 PHOENIX | As soon as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law in April, grassroots groups started protesting. The high-profile immigration law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and requires… Continue reading
Jul 27 Honoring a Modern Chicago Landmark as an ‘Urban Vision’ By Molly Finnegan When the construction of Chicago's Marina City reached completion in 1964, it was an architectural and social icon for the city -- and beyond. Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Levine Reflects on Factory Life in Detroit Jeffrey Brown profiles Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Continue watching
Jul 26 What New Library of Congress Rules Mean for Mashups, iPhone Jailbreaking People who own iPhones will now be able to crack electronic locks on them, allowing them to install applications that might not have Apple's blessing, according to new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government. The primary source for all… Continue reading
Jul 26 20 Years After the ADA, Is Life Better for Those With Disabilities? The question to ask on the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, is whether life today is any better for those with disabilities? The first-ever civil rights law for people with physical and cognitive challenges, signed by… Continue reading
Jul 26 Weekly Poem: Two from ‘Newspaper Blackout’ For Austin Kleon, an exercise for breaking writer's block developed into a method for creating poetry. Using a marker and a copy of the New York Times, Kleon blacks out words to reveal the ones he likes. Continue reading
Jul 25 Despite Skeptics, Feinberg Enthusiastic to Put $20B Oil Disaster Fund to Work BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. | At 7 a.m. Saturday, Kenneth Feinberg stood in front of a standing-room only crowd at the municipal building in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and told people "I am your lawyer." He didn't get… Continue reading
Jul 23 Shields and Brooks on ‘Inception’ of Tea Party Caucus, Michael Steele, Movies By Hari Sreenivasan In another color-coordinated edition of the “extra-extra, read-all-about-it” segment we do with Mark Shields and David Brooks on The Rundown, the columnists weigh in on what the new Tea Party Caucus could mean for Republicans. Our duo also… Continue reading