Two female activists tossed soup at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre on Sunday in a protest over food security and protections for farmers. The Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, which is fortified behind armored glass, was not damaged, according to multiple reports.
“What’s the most important thing?” the women shouted in French to a crowd of onlookers after tossing soup at the painting. “Art, or the right to healthy and sustainable food? Read More...
Amanda Bennett is the author of "The Cost of Hope," about her late husband's journey through the health-care maze.
Early in his new book,"Reinventing American Health Care," Ezekiel Emanuel pictures the late senator Arlen Specter (Pa.) holding up an incomprehensible chart of the U.S. health-care system — in 1993. What Emanuel calls the "interconnected weirdness" of our health-care system has only gotten weirder since.
Yet what he does is enormously helpful: He sorts it all out and gives us a clear and straightforward accounting of a system that is anything but. Read More...
Mouse On Tha Track Swagga Fresh Freddie The Baton Rouge-based rap label Trill Entertainment has endured a trying time in recent years. In December 2007, Pimp C, Trill's co-founder and spiritual godfather, died. In September 2008, one of the label's stars, Webbie, was arrested after a dramatic high-speed police chase. And last June, the label's biggest name, the electrifying and bedeviled Lil Boosie, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge. Through this trauma, Trill's primary sonic architect, Mouse On Tha Track (a. Read More...