>"How Rodney D. Pierce “started to feel like a target.”"

Coventry is the current UK city of culture and its programme of events began this month after a four-month delay due to Covid. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said whichever city or group of towns takes over _...Read More_

"It is no secret that Illinois and Chicago are in a financial crisis, mainly due to underfunded pensions (Better Gov has a great primer on the issue). Some argue that taxes should be raised to fund pensions, others that benefits should be _...Read More_

>"Why won’t the mayoral candidate condemn his supporters who viciously attack women online?"

"Mishandled" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The BLM protests were against excessive police violence. The police didn't "mishandle" them, they acted as counter-protesters insistent upon maintaining the barest minimums of checks on _...Read More_

"By pushing back against centuries-old stereotypes, a historically overlooked community is claiming space it was long denied."

In the Soviet Union of the 1960s, some technologists saw computers as machines of communism and cybernetics as an answer to the difficulties of a waning centrally planned economy. After Scarcity is a sci-fi video-essay that tracks these _...Read More_