If I’d only listened to the first half of the Supreme Court’s Monday argument in Chatrie v. United States, a case asking when police can use cellphone data to determine who was present near the site of a crime, I would be convinced that the Court is about to drastically limit Americans’ right to privacy. […]

Lena Dunham, the subject of a thousand 2010s think pieces about whether or not she is problematic, has re-emerged from behind the curtain with her new memoir, Famesick. But this time around, the think pieces look different. Some of them are mea culpas addressed to Dunham.  “We owe Lena Dunham an apology,” declared Rachel Simon […]

Buying tickets to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is kind of like having a megawealthy friend talk to you about the hobbies that they enjoy.  Do you fence? Do you like cricket? Badminton’s fun, right?  Like a diabolically rich friend, the Olympics are also, at the same time, a test of financial responsibility.  How much […]

For years, many Democrats have lamented the fact that some workers at highly profitable corporations — from Amazon to Walmart to McDonald’s — receive Medicaid benefits.  Their reasoning isn’t hard to understand: To be eligible for safety net programs, one must have a low household income. And why should anyone working at a highly profitable […]

There are many ways you could measure the health of a city — its air quality index, its population growth, the number of jobs it added last year. My favorite is one not often high on the priority lists of city governments in the US: How safe is it to walk?  The US has the […]