How Pre-Check made airport security lines longer
The three main explanations making the rounds for why airport security waits have gotten out of control in the U.S. this spring have been: Lots more people are flying. Budget cutbacks have forced the...
View ArticleWhat exactly is it that has Americans so polarized?
Denver Post fileDenver police separate supporters and opponents of Donald Trump after a fight outside the Western Conservative Summit where the GOP presidential candidate was speaking on July 1. By...
View ArticleWhat if the Guggenheim’s name reflected its history?
A New York art museum, on Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th streets, owes its existence to a woman named Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Rebay von Ehrenwiesen — a.k.a. Baroness Hilla von Rebay, a.k.a...
View ArticleJustin Fox: Lots of restaurant and entertainment workers need lots of help
In 1918, when the last great pandemic swept through the U.S., professional cooks, dishwashers, waiters, waitresses, bartenders and their ilk made up about 1.4% percent of the nation’s workforce. That’s...
View ArticleJustin Fox: 1-in-7 New Yorkers may have already gotten the coronavirus
Of the 215 women who delivered babies at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Upper Manhattan from March 22 through April 4, 214 were tested for the...
View ArticleJustin Fox: The (not-so) great COVID-19 versus flu comparison
After much back and forth in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a consensus is emerging that the overall risk of dying for those infected with the disease — at least so far, in a population...
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