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.
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?
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.
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.
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…
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.
Moderate Democrats Back a Privacy Bill, Minus the Privacy
Washington’s Rep. Suzan DelBene and other centrist Dems propose to protect Big Tech with their latest shambles of a privacy bill. Max Moran ponders.
A Tale of Two Ruins
One is ancient, the other modern. One is a monument to cooperation and dedication, the other to greed and deception. Stephen E Nash writes.
Sunday Comics
She’ reads the Sunday Comics ev’ry now and then. For every camera, she gives the best she can. I saw her on the cover of a magazine; now she’s a big success, I want to meet her again
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