Photography by Leela. Poems by Goirick Brahmachari
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Here’s What Happens When a Handful of Developers Control the Housing Market
Oligopoly is good for business, but is it good for you? Daniel Herriges writes.
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Sunday Comics
You gentlemen who think you have a mission to purge us of the Sunday Comics should first sort out the basic food position. Then start your preaching, that's where it begins.
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Free Thing of the Week: Dreamy, Haunting and Slow
This week's free thing brings you some dreamy music from Iran.
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When Halloween Became America’s Most Dangerous Holiday
The urban legends of "dangerous" trick-or-treating at Halloween are merely an expression of cultural and social anxieties.
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Mental Health and the Modern City: Undoing the Damage
Glasgow has become notorious for the kind of mental and physical ills that plague city dwellers everywhere. Is urban life itself harmful to humans – or can we rethink cities so that they can help us to thrive?
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Warren versus Zuckerberg: Unpacking the Fight over Political Ads
The fight over political advertising has only just begun, and it won't stop at Facebook. Harold Feld writes.
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Sunday Comics
You don't have no money? He'll get you some. You don't have no car? He'll get you one. You don't have no Sunday Comics, you feel like an insect? Well don't you worry buddy, 'cause here he comes.
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Cities with More Black Residents Rely More on Traffic Tickets and Fines for Revenue
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly a decade ago and it’s a pretty unremarkable story: I was on my way back to Columbus, Ohio, from a friend’s wedding and was going something like 15 mph over the speed limit. An officer pulled me over, asked me if I…
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Free Thing of the Week: Odisha Dictionaries
We go to India and bring back dictionaries of endangered languages for you in this week's Free Thing.
