In the April 9-10 edition of The Wall Street Journal an art review by Brian Allen,under the Masterpiece series: "Aiming for Intimacy".  The masterpiece is "The Army of the Potomac – A Sharp-Shooter On Picket Duty" (1862) by Winslow Homer.

In the April 10 issue of The Washington Post, an op-ed by Anne Applebaum: "How Russia helps the angry"

In the same edition, a book review by Carlos Lozada: "How America got its gun on"  The book is "The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture" by Pamela Haag, Basic, $29.99, 528 pp.