Robotaxi companies are pulling out all the stops to come to NYC. But should we let them?

Time is running out for New Yorkers to make serious decisions about the path forward. Gov. Hochul in her State of the State address last week announced that fully driverless autonomous vehicles (AVs) are coming to other cities in the state. Determining whether that future makes sense for New York City demands careful scrutiny.

Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

There are many different forms of imperial control. A couple of weeks ago, I (lightly) compared the US/Venezuelan model with the imperialism of the Roman Republic – which privileged Rome “getting its own way” over the institutional forms of direct control (which came a bit later in Roman history). The maps of the Roman provinces, […]

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Tristram Fane Saunders surveys the poetic landscape; Toby Lichtig on a rediscovered slice of life in 1930s Berlin.

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With much of the Los Angeles Police Department’s understaffed vice units focused on the illegal sex trade in the infamous Figueroa Street corridor, residents in the picturesque community of Larchmont Village say much of that business has spilled into their neighborhood. Neighbors who spoke to KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff said the problem isn’t new and that it’s been going on for a couple of years, […]

One person was killed after a deputy-involved shooting outside a Michael’s store in the San Fernando Valley Thursday night. Los Angeles County deputies responded to the Fallbrook Center shopping plaza on the 6600 block of Fallbrook Avenue in West Hills around 8:30 p.m. Sky5 footage showed a body covered by a canopy in the parking […]

A 21-year-old man has been identified as the suspect in a deadly high-speed pursuit that ended in a violent crash that left an innocent motorist dead, officials announced Thursday. In a news release from the Anaheim Police Department, officials said on Jan. 21 officers spotted a driver, now identified as Darwin Felipe Bahamon Martinez, behind the wheel of […]

Devastating images and videos have come out of Iran since December 28, when a wave of protests began sweeping the country: dozens of body bags outside a medical center and security forces firing into crowds.  At the time, shopkeepers in Tehran’s central market closed their stores in a movement that grew to hundreds of thousands […]

The murder of an elementary school teacher, allegedly at the hands of her husband -a Glendale firefighter- may have been prompted by infidelity noted in the victim’s diary, the suspect’s attorney implied in a statement. Police say Andrew Jimenez, 45, was taken into custody Wednesday after officers discovered the body of his wife, Mira Jimenez, […]

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday unanimously approved a high‑speed rail plan linking the San Fernando Valley and the Westside through the Sepulveda Pass, a project aimed at easing congestion along one of the region’s most gridlocked corridors. The proposal — known as the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project — is designed to […]