To hear Mayor Bloomberg’s critics tell it, he is an out-of-touch elitist who can’t be trusted to clear the streets of snow, never mind manage the schools, balance the budget, keep neighborhoods save and develop job-creating economic policy.
That’s funny—hasn’t the mayor been doing all those things, and more, all these years? And isn’t it Read More
Neil Egan is a designer for Harry N. Abrams books. Like many New Yorkers, he was highly inconvenienced by the blizzard of 2010.
On Sunday, he and his partner made the 400-mile drive from Cleveland to Brooklyn. They were driving a midsize rental from Hertz. Snow was falling. Cars were getting stuck everywhere. But Neil Read More
At the end of June, when parts of Iowa were underwater, I wrote that the United States needed to develop a rainy day fund and do more to routinize emergency response and reconstruction. In that piece I mentioned that, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "The U.S. has sustained Read More
