2+ week, 6+ day ago   (961+ words) In some ways, it’s a classic New York story: someone who works in gilded rooms and waits on the city’s ultrawealthy, and then takes the subway home to a cramped apartment. By day, Eon Huntley works as a sales associate…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (602+ words) Our failure to reckon with the anti-Semitism of Charlottesville—on the right and the left—was not merely a missed opportunity. It helped create the opening into which illiberalism has since rushed. Americans appear to face an impossible choice between…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (306+ words) The fight is about more than a story. We feud over certain foundational myths because whoever owns the myth owns the culture. It’s hard to get more foundational than Homer. Sitting in my local wide-screen Cinemark, mid-slog through Christopher Nolan’s…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (935+ words) Even by the standards of the Trump administration it was an up and down week. On Tuesday President Trump declared that a trade deal with Canada had been reached. Late Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed last minute American…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (684+ words) It seems like a straightforward question: Where does Gustavo Gordillo, one of New York’s leading socialist organizers, live? The question has turned into something quite mysterious — and revealing about the new left’s struggles around issues of wealth and class. When…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Do the words “data center” make you want to drop everything and call your congressional representative?...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1083+ words) A long-running dispute between cemeteries and bike-lane and safe streets advocates in the San Fernando Valley has escalated to become a campaign issue in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. The fight revolves around a one-mile stretch of Forest Lawn Drive…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (482+ words) Democrats seem incapable of connecting with voters on crime. In the 2024 election, Republicans stoked fear of violent criminals running amok, and since then, Democrats have responded mostly by avoiding the subject, leaving voters to conclude that they don’t care about…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (451+ words) Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya sees AI sitting on “a powder keg.” And no, he’s not referring to a bubble, but rather the growing backlash around data centers. Palihapitiya, co-host of the “All-In Podcast,” tore into “the collective leadership of frontier…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (252+ words) Planned Parenthood’s political action committee Monday announced new ads attacking Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the first of a campaign totaling more than $600,000 to oppose the vulnerable Republican incumbent. One YouTube ad from the group features a Maine woman, identified…...