The Labor Battle for the Right to Pee
Earlier this week, StreetsBlog New York reported on a community board meeting in a wealthy Manhattan neighborhood where members debated a nonbinding proposal that would encourage restaurants to let...
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How a Young Scholar Changed Our Understanding of Homer Forever
One afternoon in 1935, Milman Parry, a 33-year-old scholar whose research would revolutionize the study of Ancient Greek poetry, was unpacking his suitcase at the Palms hotel in Los Angeles. According...
View ArticleTech Giants’ Obscene Pandemic Profits Are Begging to Be Taxed
America’s economic overlords offered their first-quarter earnings reports yesterday, and the news is, as expected, good for Silicon Valley. Beyond good, in fact. The country’s tech industry is taking...
View ArticleWhat Does Book Publishing Stand For?
Seven years ago, when Amazon was in the midst of a contentious pricing battle with one of the country’s largest publishers, a group of famous authors banded together to make the case that publishing...
View ArticleSevere Water Cuts Are Coming for Arizona. The Rest of the Southwest Is Next.
Two months ago, researchers at Utah State University estimated that Arizona, California, and Nevada would collectively have to cut their intake of Colorado River water by 40 percent over the next three...
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He’s a Big City Mayor. His Grandsons Are Suspected Gang Members.
The first 911 call came in at 4:36 p.m. on August 28, 2019.“Emergency, we have a man shot in the middle of Clark Avenue,” a woman said. “He’s in the middle of the street. Dying … a man came up behind...
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Do You Know Where Your Grilling Charcoal Comes From?
Two men dropped their tools and fled on foot from an approaching motorbike. They abandoned their own motorcycle, yellow jugs of water, two hoes, and several charred lumps of wood. Nearby, wisps of...
View ArticleA Racist Cop Threatened to Weaponize the Law to Disenfranchise Black Voters
The “fuckers would be slaughtered.” So declared Cody Richard Griggers on a group text among militia members referring to what red America was prepared to do to blue America if widespread political...
View ArticleForget Tech Bro Fantasies of Self-Driving Cars and Just Invest in Buses Already
In 2016, the president of Lyft, John Zimmer, offered a rosy and ambitious vision of technological progress, predicting that soon most of his company’s customers would be cruising around in autonomous...
View ArticleWhy the Chaotic Protest at Manchester United’s Stadium Was Good, Actually
You could hardly blame NBC Sports for cutting away from Sunday’s fixture between Newcastle and Arsenal to a nearly empty stadium. Dozens of Manchester United fans had broken into Old Trafford, their...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Is for Liars Only
There are those who believe the Republican Party lacks a cohesive vision for this country, that it has been drained of any ideas for governance, and that it lacks a policy agenda to contrast with the...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing War on Trans Youth Was Hiding in Plain Sight
Back in the summer of 2019, when a collection of Fox News personalities and unfamous anti-LGBTQ activists seized on their newest moral panic, it may have seemed like a miscalculation or a joke. What...
View ArticleThe Progressive Trio Shaping Biden’s Ambitious Economic Policy
For a generation, when Lawrence Summers talked, politicians listened. As a powerful and trusted adviser to the last two Democratic presidents, the Harvard professor held sway throughout the Treasury...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”
Rain dots the sidewalk outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, as Pastor Moses Makor of Christ Vision Ministries ascends a plywood podium. Makor, dressed to preach, in black with a...
View ArticleMake Air Conditioners Suck Less
The tell-tale signs of spring are upon us. I’m not talking about the explosion of tulips, or the clouds of pollen, or even that odd feeling the sun causes when it hits your skin—warmth, is it? No, the...
View ArticleJosh Hawley and the GOP’s Fake War Against Big Tech
The books of Republican politicians might be described as political romances. Harboring fantasies of an electorate falling in love with them, they come bearing a dowry of policy prescriptions donated...
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Andrew Yang Takes New York
Andrew Yang—a man who has never held public office, nor even voted in a New York City mayoral election—is currently the front-runner in the race to be the city’s next mayor. Why is Yang so popular? And...
View ArticleThe Real-Life Victims of Democrats’ Irrational Deficit Paranoia
Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran a story by reporter Josh Mitchell, with a headline asking an alarming question: “Is the U.S. Student Loan Program Facing a $500 Billion Hole? One Banker Thinks...
View ArticleBiden Isn’t Holding Trump Accountable. Sheldon Whitehouse Is Very Concerned.
The last time a Republican administration nearly ran the country into the ground, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse took to the floor of Congress with a warning. It was a month after George W. Bush had left...
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