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Petty Cash

From “The Assistant’s Loft,” an essay from a revised edition of the anthology Goodbye to All That, which was published last month by Seal Press. She had a name, but…

The Silenced Majority

by Rana Dasgupta,

Can America still afford democracy?

The Death of a Once Great City

by Kevin Baker,

The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

Aline & Bob

by R. Crumb,

In troubles with money

Coming Apart

by Rebecca Solnit,

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

Save Our Public Universities

by Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

Realty Bites

by D.W. Gibson,

From a conversation with Raul, a resident of Manhattan, included in The Edge Becomes the Center, an oral history of gentrification in New York City, by D. W. Gibson, out…

Silicon Ally

by Richard Rodriguez,

From an interview with Richard Rodriguez published in the Spring 2014 issue of Boom: A Journal of California. Rodriguez is the author, most recently, of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, excerpted…

Say No to Dubai on the Hudson

by John R. MacArthur,

“Pharaonic exclusion is their motto; contempt for human scale and ordinary people their raison d’être.”