New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern replied to a question at an April 6 press conference by declaring that the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy had been declared “essential workers” amid that nation’s “stay at home” order. Directing her comments … Continue reading
Last week, some news outlets—including CNN and MSNBC —made the decision to stop airing the entirety of Donald Trump’s daily press conferences on the new coronavirus. With the president’s statements veering more and more into fiction (“Nobody knew there would … Continue reading
With more than 32,000 COVID-19 infections and 400 deaths in the US to date, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams predicting that “this week, it’s going to get bad,” as hospitals prepare for the eventuality of rationing treatment for patients least … Continue reading
One of the drawbacks of much current media coverage is its reliance on official sources: If you’re a major public official, your chances of your every stray thought ending up published as fact are way higher than if you’re an … Continue reading
If you’re like, well, much of the population of the planet right now, you’re doing little other than obsessively reading news sites for the latest on the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, maybe taking an occasional break to check whether … Continue reading
Even in an East Village littered with “For Rent” signs in store windows, East Ninth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A stands out.At the east end of the block sits a six-story brick edifice, freshly painted white, that was … Continue reading
The year 2019 was, by all accounts, the year of climate awareness. To an unprecedented degree, in the three decades since scientists first warned of the imminent dangers of rising carbon emissions and the resulting global warming, we were transfixed … Continue reading
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s latest proposal to expand Penn Station is an overflowing grab bag of promises to commuters and city residents to improve what the governor called in his budget speech yesterday the station’s “seven levels of hell”. Cuomo is … Continue reading
If you’ve only been following the bushfires ravaging Australia through the headlines popping up on your social media feeds — which, let’s face it, is more popular than reading newspapers these days — it’s probably been in a series of … Continue reading
Last week, baseball’s winter meetings in San Diego—normally a hotbed of trade activity—were also abuzz with talk of an even higher-stakes deal: Major League Baseball’s proposal, first revealed in October, to eliminate 42 minor league affiliates once the current operating … Continue reading