Liz Pelly For years, many other music tech critics and I have talked about how the streaming model pushes this idea of a one-size-fits-all solution for all of music. And how in imagining alternatives, we...
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Donald Trump was still just a landlord and TV bully when Steve Bannon, later to become the president’s on-and-off-again demagogue in chief, announced himself a pitiless enemy of the administrative state. Self-dramatizing as he is,...
On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Chicago earlier this month, I was in desperate search of relief from the heat. The single air-conditioning unit in my third-floor apartment bedroom was not cutting it: I needed...
Our taxi stops as close to the presidential palace as possible. We get out and join the queue. We hand our passports to the guards at the first check point. We then have to pass...
Bernie Sanders has spent much of the last eight months touring the deepest red parts of the country. Earlier this month, for example, he held a rally in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he told a...
Review of Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Rebellion by Jeremy Morris (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) On August 5, a Telegram user named Arseniy wrote in a group chat: “Good morning. Today is day 1259...
On August 1, former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe was sentenced to twelve years of house arrest, making history as the first head of state in modern Colombia to face a criminal conviction. In a country...
It’s famously hard to find an apartment in New York City. Andrew Cuomo has floated a plan to make it harder. The disgraced ex-governor and current mayoral candidate has proposed banning middle-income tenants from rent-stabilized...
After Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral primary, conservatives dusted off their favorite insult: socialism is just “free stuff,” and Mamdani only won because that’s what he promised. (See here and here.)...
Only weeks after the tech industry tried and failed to convince federal lawmakers to shield artificial intelligence companies from regulation, a bipartisan group of pro-business lawmakers is spearheading state legislation that would prohibit consumers from...
With Zohran Mamdani’s resounding victory in New York City’s Democratic primary, the city has reached a pivotal moment in its political history. The impact extends far beyond New York. Cities are again becoming laboratories for...
Ever since Emmanuel Macron called snap elections to the National Assembly last summer, it’s been common to hear gripes about paralysis overtaking French political life. Yet there are revealing exceptions to the purported stasis, most...
