“We want freedom”

Something big, and real, and tremendously heartening, has been happening all weekend in the streets of Iran. Watch the video above. The crowd’s courage should put a spring in your step. CNN’s failure to pay attention has not gone unnoticed by angry viewers. Joe Biden is culpably slow on the uptake too. In one of the weekend’s most-read analyses, The New Yorker‘s Laura Secor asks: is what’s happening in Iran Wenceslas Square or Tiananmen? It is a question for Western governments too, and for every one of us as we watch.