In the Fight Over N.Y.C. Sidewalks, Tree Beds Are the Smallest Frontier
Over 660,000 trees line the streets of New York City, and the beds around them take up more than 400 acres, according to a city estimate. While many people just…
Migrant Children Sell Candy on the Subway. New York Has No Solutions.
On a subway platform in the Bronx recently, a girl in a puffer coat strolled past passengers with a basket of M&M’s, Kit Kats and Trident gum slung across her…
From Moscow to Mumbai: Russia Pivots South for Trade
For centuries, trade with Europe was the main pillar of Russia’s economy. The war in Ukraine ended that, with Western sanctions and other restrictions increasingly cutting Russia off from European…
Malaysia Rises as Crucial Link in Chip Supply Chain
Construction cranes still surround the brand-spanking new plant in Kulim’s industrial park in Malaysia. But inside, legions of workers hired by the Austrian tech giant AT&S are already gearing up…
Support for ‘uncommitted’ weakens in Washington State in early tallies.
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday secured the delegates necessary to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations, according to The Associated Press, cementing a general election rematch…
Donald Trump and Joe Biden Clinch Their Party Nominations
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday secured the delegates necessary to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations, according to The Associated Press, cementing a general election rematch…
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/12/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Kind readers, we are now at 204 177 donors, or 51%44% of our goal of 400 donors (25 more than last year). You have moved…
Even Photoshop Can’t Erase Royals’ Latest P.R. Blemish
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a digitally altered picture of an absent British princess is apparently worth a million. That seemed to be the lesson after…
Adrianne Lenker Isn’t Scared of Sadness
When the singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker was 21, she was involved in a bike accident that knocked out one of her incisors. For a while, she walked around with…
Opinion | Where Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Collide
Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don’t think anti-Zionism is necessarily antisemitic, I get emails from Jewish readers that are angry, disappointed or sometimes simply…