Garry Kasparov: Arguably the world’s greatest chess player, Kasparov’s political career has not been nearly as successful. Founder of the United Civil Front and a leader of the loose opposition coalition the «Other Russia,» Kasparov planned to challenge then-President Vladimir Putin’s handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, in the 2008 Russian presidential election. But he was forced […]

Su rutina diaria es pedir dinero en el Metro. Nominalmente, porque tiene un ojo prodigioso para las partes blandas. Nadie como él para notar una lonchera descuidada, un blackberry a tiro, un cierre de cartera discretamente abierto. El hambre inagotable es el más ardiente de los estímulos. Un diálogo íntimo de poderosos instintos en el […]

These were some of the most evil 11 acres in Germany, a place where Nazi leaders hatched plans to terrorize millions as casually as you might send an email. Heinrich Himmler had an office there. So did Adolf Eichmann, the «architect of the Holocaust.» It was there that, in a matter of months, German democracy […]