Two of Washington's most prominent economics columnists spent Friday debating an issue that affects all Americans: whether the Beltway's collection of expensive restaurants truly caters to the appetites of the town's cognitive elite.
It's been an entire month since a hellacious swarm of extremely blue bikes, designed for the long-awaited Citi Bike program, descended on Manhattan and southwest Brooklyn — since which New Yorkers have biked the perimeter of Manhattan 70,445 times.
Brittney Cooper on Rachel Jeantel, Tricia Rose on the fall of Paula Deen, Michael Calderone on the NSA's sudden availability, Roger Cohen on Edward Snowden's place in history, and Amy Davidson on how to defend marriage.
Peter Fulham on the wait for justice, Frank Bruni on the power of the Supreme Court, Irin Carmon on the Democratic Party's abortion platform, Sadhbh Walshe on Texas's death row, and Jelani Cobb on the rise and fall of racial progress.
Among those who had closely followed the twists and turns of the legal case for gay marriage — in other words, the pundit class of Washington, D.C. and New York — reaction spanned the gamut of emotion: elation, relief, conviction, surprise, even peace. Of course, many were simply unfazed. And a few were resigned. Here's a guide to what they're saying.
Andrew Sullivan on the Defense of Marriage Act, Ian Crouch on the arrest of Aaron Hernandez, Jodi Jacobson on Wendy Davis's marathon filibuster, Gary Younge on the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision, and Curt Anderson on the defeat of Gabriel Gomez.
The iPhone's stock signature, at first deemed a louche emblem of status, is now a a built-in forgiveness clause. Please don't judge me for any typos or spelling errors, "Sent from my iPhone" suggests. I am very busy.
Undoing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has fixated factions of America's right-wing political coalition for years, but on Tuesday, faced with a Supreme Court decision at once sort of agreeing with and still sort of stumping them, conservative pundits drifted to the margins of the ensuing conversation.
Brentin Mock on the future of the Voting Rights Act, Kat Stoeffel on the fate of seduction artist Ken Hoinsky, John McWhorter on the fall of Paula Deen, Bill Bradley on the proliferation of private transportation, and Jelani Cobb on Edward Snowden's global adventure.
It's not easy being a Stuy kid. In recent years, students at Stuyvesant High School, the crown jewel of New York City's Specialized High Schools, have been grabbed national attention for cheating, recording racist rap videos, and organizing an event called "Slutty Wednesday." The latest controversy to befall the elite public school is a bit less flashy — it's politics as usual.
