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No Vacancy

by Wes Enzinna,

Can empty houses help solve homelessness?

Blue Sky Days

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

Hustle and Flow

by Alice Goffman,

By Alice Goffman, from On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, to be published next month by University of Chicago Press. Goffman, a sociologist at the University of…

Ward 63, Precinct 16, Philadelphia, PA (2008)

by Michael Mergen,

Ward 64, Precinct 11, Philadelphia, PA (2008)

by Michael Mergen,

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. After many years of increasing borrowing and at least thirteen months of evidence of an impending catastrophe, American financial institutions faced the worst credit crisis…