
“What if Amoebas Could Play the Piano?” — Some Overdue Thoughts on Tom Friedman’s Silly Mamdani Column
Tom Friedman thinks Zohran Mamdani could be a two-state bridge-builder, which makes about as much sense as amoebas playing the piano.

Tom Friedman thinks Zohran Mamdani could be a two-state bridge-builder, which makes about as much sense as amoebas playing the piano.

As fashionable critics line up to declare drachmanization obsolete, we rise in defense of truth and integrity.

In the second chapter of this dystopian nightmare from 1958, Harry’s idyllic recovery turns sinister in the year 1998, when he discovers that his luxurious treatment center may actually be a secret human-breeding laboratory.

Beneath a quiet Toronto street, the discovery of ancient Indigenous remains has forced the city and 11 First Nations to confront the complex histories buried under the modern landscape.

Another old New Yorker cartoon from the 1920s, reimagined with mermaids, because we think mermaids are funny.

Raised on smartphones and social media, Gen Z is rediscovering film photography as a slower, more tangible path to creativity, community and life beyond the algorithm.

In this eerily prophetic 1880 story, a lone survivor enters a silent London where toxic fog has killed millions and the city’s ordinary pollution has become an apocalypse.

International climate investors have largely ignored local governments in an economic system geared toward nations. Some leaders want to change that.

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Trump boasts that America is “the hottest country anywhere in the world.” That’s just a weird thing to say.
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