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Birthright citizenship ruling was a win for democracy — and a warning about erasing history
This week’s narrow Supreme Court decision protecting birthright citizenship is rightly being hailed as a triumph for the American experiment. By some, anyway. Check out MAGA world and you’ll quickly find Trump surrogates and even elected leaders spouting a kind of extremist anti-immigrant sentiment that once, not so long ago, was considered intolerable in the…
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Amazon’s Shaver Hall is proof that the food hall trend desperately needs to die
If the Big Apple has one food trend that needs to die, it’s food halls – those indoor clusters of same-old “favorites” that might or might not be available at any particular time you go. Just-opened Shaver Hall on the ground floor of the former Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue, now owned by…
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How ‘Elle’ paid tribute to James Van Der Beek for his final role
James Van Der Beek’s final role is his posthumous appearance in “Elle,” Prime Video’s “Legally Blonde” prequelseries. The show pays tribute to the “Dawson’s Creek” actor, who died at 48 in February, following a battle with colorectal cancer. His character, Dean Wilson, first appears in the third episode of “Elle.” At the end of that…
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CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose cannons — outsourcing decisions to chatbots, making erratic strategy pivots based on their feedback, and even asking them who to fire. At the same time, other company leaders are turning against the tech. Writing for Inc, professional…
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Fan loudly expresses unbridled enthusiasm for Mexico’s World Cup goal … at Dodgers-A’s game
A fan sitting behind home plate at the Dodgers–Athletics game Tuesday night really had his head in the game — but not the game he was attending. In fact, his mind was on a completely different sport, at least during one particular moment in the bottom of the third inning. The Dodgers were up 5-1…
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Nearly 450,000 New Yorkers Are Losing Health Coverage July 1
Participants hold signs while protesting the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act in midtown Manhattan on July 29, 2017. —Albin Lohr-Jones—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images Nearly 450,000 New Yorkers are losing health coverage on July 1. They are among the millions of people expected to become uninsured over the next year because of federal changes…
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How the Dodgers contributed to Bobby Bonilla Day and triggered the rise of deferred salaries and Adrian Beltre
Most fans of baseball, delayed gratification and compounding interest know about Bobby Bonilla Day, an annual acknowledgment of the dawn of deferred contracts. BBD is also a cautionary reminder to Major League general managers not to overpay players whose best years are behind them. And Bonilla evokes memories among Dodgers fans of the veteran third…
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The Supreme Court Rules That Sports Are Different
Sports are unlike other parts of American life—treating men and women differently on the court or the field is okay. That’s the crucial point made by the Supreme Court’s judgment in West Virginia v. B. P. J. yesterday. By a 6–3 margin, the justices upheld state laws that define men’s and women’s sports by biological…
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You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly
Writing AI Lab each week means I occasionally encounter AI models that behave badly and bizarrely. Usually, there’s nothing to be done about it, save for sharing those tales with you. But that could soon change. A group of AI researchers has set up a crowdsourced website, Flaw Reporting for AI (FLARE-AI), for reporting and…
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More Americans are installing solar batteries at home. Here’s why
Americans can no longer get federal tax credits to install solar panels at home, but a growing number are using state incentives to add home batteries. Homeowners installed a record 673 megawatts of battery storage in the first quarter of 2026, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. States with high electricity prices…