In This Mexican Neighborhood, Locals Say ¡Viva el Beetle!
Rusted and stripped of their right seat, the cars parked in queues rounding street corners serve as the unofficial taxi in the hillside neighborhoods in Cuautepec in Mexico’s capital. The…
Sondheim Was a Critical Darling. Since His Death, He’s a Hitmaker, Too.
Stephen Sondheim, the great musical theater composer and lyricist, was widely acclaimed as a genius, but during his lifetime he had a bumpy track record at the box office, with…
A New Tax on Imports and a Split From China: Trump’s 2025 Trade Agenda
Former President Donald J. Trump is planning an aggressive expansion of his first-term efforts to upend America’s trade policies if he returns to power in 2025 — including imposing a…
Opinion | A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?
John Szarkowski, the legendary curator at the MoMA, once described photography as “the act of pointing.” And for the nearly 200 years since its inception, photography has consisted of capturing…
Opinion | Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, assembled a land empire outside San Francisco and announced…
Chaos, Fury, Mistakes: 600 Days Inside New York’s Migrant Crisis
Nearly 70,000 migrants crammed into hundreds of emergency shelters. People sleeping on floors, or huddled on sidewalks in the December cold. Families packed into giant tents at the edge of…
New York City Aims to Build Affordable Housing in Wealthier Neighborhoods
New York City officials on Tuesday will put forward a plan to direct public money toward mixed-income housing projects in wealthier neighborhoods — a proposal aimed at addressing the lack…
As World’s Gaze Shifts to Gaza, Israel’s Psyche Remains Defined by Oct. 7 Attack
The Oct. 7 attack on Israel has prompted soul-searching on the Israeli left, undermining faith in a shared future with Palestinians. It has created a crisis of confidence on the…
U.S. Strikes Iran-Backed Groups in Iraq After Attack on Base Injures 3 Americans
The United States conducted a new round of airstrikes early on Tuesday in Iraq, most likely killing militants and destroying three facilities used by Iranian proxies that had been targeting…
2:00PM Water Cooler Christmas Day 2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I had heavily hinted that I would take the day off, but then I remembered that I ran this in 2020 and 2021 (oddly,…