On May 5, millionaires, billionaires, and CEOs shelled out a reported $1.5 million per plate to dine with President Donald Trump. The proceeds from the night went to a political action committee controlled by Trump. It sure looked like wealthy people and businessmen paid for access to the president, who wields great power over the […]

“Walkability” is a buzzword, but like the related term “urbanism,” nobody can agree on what it means. Is a neighborhood walkable simply if it’s easy to walk around? Or is it only walkable if all the amenities of daily and weekly life are within a mile of your house? Plenty of websites and nonprofit organizations […]

The gavel falls, and another executive order hits the skids. Federal judges, cloaked in black robes and armed with injunctions, have become the bane of President Donald Trump’s second term, much like they were for President Franklin D. Roosevelt nearly a century ago.  But Trump is involved in an important fight over the legitimate powers […]

In April, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2025 slate of annual inductees, generating the now-perfunctory reactions that greet such news: disdain or exasperated relief combined with vague irritation at the Hall’s very existence, of which, cicada-like, we are reminded each year around this time. The first two responses are fairly straightforward. […]