A New York City nonprofit group, flush with millions in private capital, is piloting a first-of-its-kind savings program to address the racial wealth gap — by giving thousands of students…
The University of Southern California’s academic senate voted on Wednesday to censure Carol Folt, the school’s president, after several tumultuous weeks in which the administration canceled the valedictory address of…
The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. One of my flaws as a debater on the negative side was that I found it difficult to prepare for cases that I thought were…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Southern Scrub-Robin, Little Desert Nature Lodge, Hindmarsh, Victoria, Australia. In Case You Might Miss… (1) Stormy Daniels takes the stand,…
Yves here. We sometimes serve up posts for readers to have a hard look at what they say, and sometimes, here as to what they don’t say. This piece summarizes…
Lambert here: Larry Summers has risen from the grave (amusingly, all the graphic file names include “summers”). Interesting ideas, though. Who knew that mainstream economists would invent metrics completely divorced…
The moment has arrived. After years underground, periodical cicadas — insects of the genus Magicicada — are emerging by the trillions across more than a dozen states to molt, sing,…
Watching the red carpet at Monday night’s Met Gala, I couldn’t help but recall a prediction I’d heard from Emily Kirkpatrick, who writes the Substack newsletter “I <3 Mess.” She’d…
Customers of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX are poised to recover all of the money they lost when the firm collapsed in 2022 and receive interest on top of it,…