For the Democrats, winning the White House in 2020 will require bold moral leadership combined with savvy political…
For the first time since 2015, the median apartment in Manhattan costs less than a million dollars. ($999,000.) At…
“[The] richest 10% of people in high-inequality countries are more socially anxious than all but the bottom 10% in low-inequality countries.” Achieve serenity by giving your money to the poor, or to me. Read more
You don’t have to give the bad man things. Just make him wait long enough and he’ll start telling his fans that he…
At this time last year, I made the worthless prediction that 2018 would be The Bad Year. Was it? No, it was not.…
It’s funny, the disconnect between the things that we say we value, and the people that we treat as valuable.
The Fight for 15 movement has successfully raised wages for working people across America, but it also made…
Most people would say they do not want America becoming more overtly racist. Many of those same people would also…
Time passes, technology advances, and next thing you know you have newspapers writing scaremongering stories about…
A South Carolina pastor who was criticized for buying his wife a $200,000 Lamborghini SUV is drawing support from his own parishioners. “I think it’s great that his wife doesn’t have to drive a clunker,” one churchgoer said. Jesus also said that (basically). Read more
Neman Lab, the esteemed journalism think tank at Havard University, today releases its closely watched Predictions…
Imagine—just imagine—if a tiny, barely noticed tax on Wall Street could solve many of our nation’s problems. Well it…
New York City’s most expensive neighborhoods in 2018 were Tribeca and Soho, maintaining the city’s perfect correlation between real estate prices and density of dipshit Eurotrash cokeheads talking interior design. Read more
“Oakland is effectively becoming the Brooklyn Heights of San Francisco,” Anthony Scaramucci told potential investors in his new real estate project. “We think we’re going to be building a swank, boutique hotel there that’s going to create excessive economic rents.” Cool. Read more
Amazon, the sprawling $800 billion monster eating the retail industry, is the most important union target in…
Yesterday, a Splinter writer made the extremely unpopular argument that Bernie Sanders should not run for president…
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Prototypical evil big tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris) has invested $1.8 billion in a weed company. Big Evil Weed is here to stay. Read more
The smart money agrees: a recession is inevitable, quite possibly in the next year or two. We can’t blame Donald…