Could Revolution Come to Putin's Russia?
Saturday's mass demonstrations in Moscow may draw comparisons to the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street, but Russia -- and Putin's "democracy" -- is unique… More »
Brian Till is a Research Fellow with the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the author of Conversations With Power. Follow him on Twitter: @brianmtill. More
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UVA's wrongheaded decision not to cancel the rest of its season following the death of Yeardley Love will only hurt the sport, as it reinforces a sense that the team and the school do not take this seriously.… More »
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The death of the album and the rise of the single perhaps mirrors the broader societal shift. The Internet makes the infinite accessible, yet, in the hours we spend tethered to the sprawling enigma, we tend to pursue what we already know, rather than search for the foreign.… More »
The sport that stands to gain the most from the advance of high definition is, without question, ice hockey. In the mid 1990's, Fox played with FoxTrax, a comet-like tail that trailed pucks as they frenetically bounced around the rink, the color and length of the digital appendage delineating speed. It was an abysmal failure. But it addressed the main complaint voiced by television viewers -- and, for that matter, live game viewers: that damn, little puck is hard…… More »
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