A self-driving car ally takes the wheel in D.C., the master planners face new foes, and more from The Lever this week.
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Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective, equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture of modern tax codes serves not the public good but the consolidation of private wealth. The progressivity of income tax is hollowed out at the uppermost tiers, where income is largely derived from capital — taxed at preferential […]
Carole Ann Ford confirmed that scenes for a different ending to the Doctor Who Season 2 finale were filmed that would have set up Season 3.
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A state wants Big Tech to pay up, other states power down price-fixing robots and slash drug prices, and scammers get a taste of justice.
They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. Inspired by […]
The post Receipts: a brief history of the death of the web. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Support for the Maine Senate candidate suggests that voters are so sick of what the establishment has to offer, they might look past a Nazi tattoo.
The post The Left Put Its Faith in Graham Platner. Will He Break Its Heart? appeared first on The Intercept.
Trump directly tied his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to the Biden administration’s “war on cryptocurrency.”
The post Trump Is Rewriting History to Justify His Sketchy Pardon of a Crypto King appeared first on The Intercept.
Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners.
Inside the massive, granite slab slumbering beneath the frozen continent
The post Pink Boulders Reveal a Hidden Antarctic Giant appeared first on Nautilus.
Time is running out to deliver a stockpile of contraceptives intended as aid for low-income women, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.
The post Trump Would Rather Let Birth Control Expire Than Give It to Africans as Aid appeared first on The Intercept.
Slow-motion video reveals how these strikes could kill you, in surprisingly different ways
The post The Secrets of Deadly Snake Bites appeared first on Nautilus.
Let us set the record straight: President Trump is not a king, and the White House is not a castle.
To those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, a big, beautiful ballroom might reek of the worst of eighteenth-century Versailles; however, this particular gilded, jumbo-sized event space reeks of American spirit, unrigged elections, and Brut by Fabergé. This is a privately funded ballroom for the people—the ticket-holding, well-connected, Stephen Miller–vetted people—all at no cost to the American public.
Also duty-free? The crocodile moat we’re installing around the White House grounds.
In the final days of the NYC mayoral race, the Democratic Party faces a choice between a future defined by Zohran Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo.
The post The Struggle for the Future of the New York Democratic Party appeared first on The Intercept.
I recently organized a study tour of Helsinki; its focus was affordable housing and homelessness. Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview: https://nickfalvo.ca/affordable-housing-and-homelessness-in-helsinki-finland/
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
The post As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers appeared first on The Intercept.
The scale of protests against the President show he can still be beaten, but only if his opponents start offering a coherent alternative, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
So… NASA’s civil servant workforce has varied in size over the years, peaking during the Apollo program. During the 1990s, the Clinton administration reduced the workforce by 25% over five years, a process that some claim laid the groundwork for the shuttle Columbia disaster. This budget proposes to slash NASA’s workforce by nearly 1/3 in […]
Oh, my god. You knew? Why didn’t you say something? Sweet mother of Mozart, Janice! I think I’m going to be sick.
Do you have any idea how awkward tonight was? I was knee-deep into my anecdote about the Raindrop Prelude—do you know how many times I’ve told that story, Janice?!—when Ricky raised his hand. He actually raised his hand, Janice, like a second grader asking for a hall pass to use the bathroom, a little embarrassed to have to say it out loud but finding it necessary nonetheless. And I’m all, like, “I think I know how to pronounce the name of my favorite composer, Ricky.” Haha.