I live a pretty comfortable life, all things considered. My nights are spent cozy, my days are spent at a school I’m privileged enough to afford. However, even in my plucky middle class position, I’m anxious about the future and our political situation. So I can’t imagine how genuinely gross this all must be to…

Sometimes, when I’m feeling good, I try really hard not to think about what billionaire property developer Zygmunt Wilf’s trying to do with the Second Watchung Mountain Ridge forest in West Orange, NJ. Essentially, he’s attempting to blow it up. Yes–blow it up, all to build a 496-unit housing development atop it. At the moment,…

Election day this year was outstanding. Genuinely, just, outstanding–but maybe not perfect: Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, came to power in NYC; but Mrs. Sherrill, a veteran and Democratic Congresswoman, is a devout moderate unlikely to enact real, lasting, or meaningful change. Her platform was nothing remarkable, new, or interesting. Her rallies preached anti-Trumpism without…