In military aviation, there is a certain silence that follows an embarrassing outcome, and the silence…
Even now, the first thing you notice about the Islamic Center of San Diego is how…
Entering a Sonic parking space on a steamy afternoon has an almost ritualistic quality. The tiny…
There is a certain type of online celebrity that shows up early and won’t go away.…
The idea of a farmer or a nomadic fossil hunter discovering massive bones at the edge…
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Older editors have a reassuring narrative about Gen Z that goes like this: no one under thirty can sit with a paragraph anymore, kids these days can’t focus, and phones ruined their…
The 900 block of Market Street is one of the most prominent examples of a specific Philadelphia block that has gained notoriety in the wrong way during the past 20 years. On…
On a Tuesday afternoon, there’s a certain kind of quiet in a high-end store in Hong Kong. The lights remain warm. The leather still has a high-end scent. However, the staff has…
Finance
When you read the number on a screen, it doesn’t actually feel like anything. $39 trillion. It appears in the corner…
Within a day or two, a certain type of minor story about American labor enforcement usually fades into local news cycles.…
Like many things these days, it began with someone saying something they probably shouldn’t have.…
Once you’ve recognized it, it’s difficult to ignore the terrible irony at the heart of…
From above, Memphis has a distinct appearance. Along its western margin, the Mississippi River makes…
For a brief period in 2022 and 2023, the CHIPS Act appeared to be the…
The memory of oil markets is peculiar. Only the parts they want to remember are…
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The headline “filmmakers can have a little AI, as a treat” that many media outlets quickly opted for after the Golden Globes announced their new AI qualifying guidelines on May 7 was more accurate than the actual wording. The policy is really well-considered. On closer inspection, it’s also based on…
Regional News
Moody’s decision to turn stable on China was the kind of rating action that nearly everyone anticipated, nearly no one fully believed, and nearly…
There is a specific type of economic narrative that builds up through dozens of tiny, individually insignificant data bits until the whole image becomes…
Wall Street’s decision to forget 2008 has an almost dramatic quality. It is difficult to recall the fear that almost brought down the entire…