My Real Problem With Urbanization
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After my post two days ago about urbanization—i.e., the general desire to make big cities even bigger—I ended up in a Twitter conversation with David Schleicher that started getting into the weeds of land-use rules and the economic benefits of building more housing in large…
One Year After Harvey, Houston Awaits the Next Flood
Julie Dermansky/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Darlene Wilkens’ branch of Spartan Insurance had flooded before, but never like this. A year ago, as she watched horrifying coverage of Hurricane Harvey from home, she realized her…
Crazy Rich Asians Shines A Spotlight on Chinese Musicians
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians has been a significant moment for Asian-American representation on film—and, a week after its opening, is already looking to be a success: The romantic comedy pulled in more than $35 million in five days in North American theaters, and Warner…
The Filmmaker Behind “Hoop Dreams” Is Back With a Series on Teens, Race, and Privilege
Chanti Relf, a student at Oak Park and River Forest High School”America to Me”/Starz Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, shortly after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, chose not to prosecute the white cop who killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown, a suburban Chicago high school…
California Lawmakers Demand an Investigation Into Verizon’s Slowdown of Firefighters’ Data
Firefighters battle spot fires from the Mendocino Complex Fire.Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Days after California firefighters accused Verizon of slowing down crucial data while they were battling a giant blaze, 13 members of Congress have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the alleged throttling. In…
Australia Just Killed Off Another Prime Minister in Its Endless Showdown Over Climate Policy
A live-feed from the Australian parliament.Camay Sungu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Among the many reasons Americans love Australia, the main one is that even though there is no language barrier, it’s so intensely… foreign. They don’t really get it. Fair enough. There’s that whole parliamentary thing, cute but disgruntled marsupials, all the things that can…