What Happened to Chewing Gum?
One of the through lines in Grease, the 1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John musical, is the squelching of…
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Is America Ready for a New Age of Nuclear Power?
“WE WERE A BIT CRAZY”Kairos Power’s new test facility is on a parched site a few miles south of the Albuquerque,…
American Religion Is Not Dead Yet
Take a drive down Main Street of just about any major city in the country, and—with the housing market ground to a…
The Twitter Files Are a Missed Opportunity
In the classic Japanese film Rashomon, four people retell the same incident in different and sometimes…
The End of Manual Transmission
I drive a stick shift. It’s a pain, sometimes. Clutching and shifting in bumper-to-bumper traffic wears you out. My…
Why This COVID Wave Feels Different
In mid-March, I began to notice a theme within my social circle in New York, where I live: COVID—it finally got me!…