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I remember standing in the Atlanta airport the day after Election Day in 2004, watching John Kerry and John Edwards give concession speeches. I was dumbfounded that America could vote for a second George W. Bush administration. How could any thinking person cast their ballot for such a vacuous disaster as that? George W. Bush… Read more »

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The design of decline I was grocery shopping on a Friday night—I’m at an age when not only is that normal but admitting to it doesn’t bother me—and I noticed something new. There were gates on a few of the aisles. Posted signs mentioned that the aisles would be closed after 7 p.m. and that… Read more »

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In the early 2000s, I picked up a copy of the punk rock newspaper The New York Waste, and paged through the show listings, record reviews and other articles. I came across a comic strip, ‘Last In Line for the Gang Bank, the GG Allin Story,’ a comic biography of late punk rock musician GG… Read more »

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Amid the implosion of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges (I am far from the only one but I told you so) and the mid-term election vote counting, Twitter has become a bigger and more chaotic donnybrook under the leadership of Elon Musk. Many friends on the platform object to Musk’s policies and are… Read more »

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Because New York contains people from every corner of the world, nothing that happens in the world goes unnoticed. For something like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, New Yorkers who didn’t know saw just how much Ukrainians have influenced our city. I remember discovering an area known as Little Ukraine when I was younger walking… Read more »