Crime in New York City
I had lunch with a friend yesterday and I promised him that I’d dig up the violent crime figures for New York City. Here they are: This chart alone should provide you with pretty good clues to the answers to these questions: Did David Dinkins have a pretty good record on crime? Was Rudy Giuliani’s…
California Cops Are Collecting Info on Millions of Drivers Who Have Done Nothing Wrong
A Santa Monica, California police officer points a radar gun.Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Law enforcement in four of California’s most populous counties is storing, searching, and sharing detailed records on millions of random drivers, according to a new report from the California State Auditor, a nonpartisan government agency. The audit,…
Kickstarter Was Supposed to Be About Conscious Capitalism. So Why Did It Oppose a Union Drive?
Maurizio Gambarini/AP Yancey Strickler, the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, has been in a bit of a bind. His book, This Could Be Our Future, is a “manifesto” for “a more generous world.” It is an argument for—and even a partial guide to—a new, conscious capitalism. But he can’t avoid the other major development…
How Can Jeff Bezos Spend $10 Billion Fighting Climate Change? We Have a Few Ideas.
Ted S. Warren/AP This story originally ran in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On Monday, Amazon CEO and world’s richest human Jeff Bezos announced he was pledging nearly 8 percent of his net worth to fight climate change. This money, known as the Bezos Earth Fund, will be used to support…
Will America Elect a Socialist President?
Pretty much everyone agrees that Mike Bloomberg did a terrible job last night. However, there was a one-minute segment where he went after Bernie Sanders: This is what I’m afraid of in the general election. Sanders doesn’t get a lot of pushback from his fellow liberals for being a socialist, but Republicans will have no…
Intel Official Says Russia Is Trying to Re-Elect Trump
The great thing about Vladimir Putin is that he always looks kind of shifty. That makes it easy to find file photos of him looking kind of shifty.Alexei Druzhinin/TASS via ZUMA Last week an intelligence official named Shelby Pierson gave a classified briefing to the House Intelligence Committee. Russia, she said, was already interfering in…