Big Cities and High Rents: A Roundup
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been posting bits and pieces of data related to urban density. This morning I want to tie it all together in a single post and offer a few thoughts. This is not some Olympian pronouncement about What Needs…
Hinds’ Noisier, Messier Second Album Is Punk Perfection
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. HindsI Don’t RunMom + Pop While lots of young bands struggle to record a strong followup to a promising debut, the women of the Spanish quartet Hinds take a big leap forward on I Don’t Run. Although the recipe is essentially the same as before—jangly,…
A Searing Memoir Recalls How Syria’s Civil War Tore Apart Three Friends
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brothers of the Gun opens in 2011 at the eruption of Syria’s Arab Spring. Marwan Hisham and his close friends Nael and Tareq are chanting at their first protest against the dictator Bashar al-Assad in the streets of their hometown, Raqqa. Their faces are wrapped…
I Went To an Evangelical Revival and It Was All About Fighting Racism and Protecting LGBT Rights
Elliott Green/Red Letter Christians Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Say the word “evangelical” and images of diversity or progressive politics are not likely to come to mind. But at the E.C. Glass High School auditorium in Lynchburg, Virginia, that’s exactly what was on display in April at the first Red Letter revival.…
How a Court Ruling on Joe Arpaio Could Undermine Civil Rights and the Mueller Investigation
Donald Trump campaigns with then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Iowa in January 2016. Mary Altaffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has attacked the judiciary since his 2016 campaign, from the “Mexican” judge who presided over a case against Trump University to the “so-called judge” who blocked his travel ban…
Qatari Investor Accused in Bribery Plot Appears With Michael Cohen in Picture Posted by Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer
Michael Cohen leaves court in Manhattan on Monday April 16, 2018. Go Nakamura/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Members of the Trump transition team appear to have met on December 12, 2016 with a group from Qatar that included Ahmed Al-Rumaihi, the former Qatari diplomat and current head of…