Civics and Culture

A Bus Driver Kind of Mind

Why do I love scruffiness, when I am not scruffy? Because these are the strangers who are consistently nicest to me, who treat me plainly,...

Midweek Video: Why Europe Doesn’t Build Skyscrapers

https://youtu.be/EVJ_rgEUSJE In this video, The B1M explains why European cities do not typically build skyscrapers while the rest of the world is increasingly doing so....

Sunday Video: Kelo v. New London

https://youtu.be/9eZKcPwWVgs Mr. Beat explains the famous land use case over eminent domain in Kelo v. City of New London.

Strife in the Afternoon: Nathan on Fights

It all started so innocently. Each person meant well, but each had a stress inside them, a bitterness, that they turned on the others...

UAW4121 Joins the Youth Climate Strike

As the human tragedy of Hurricane Dorian lingers over the Bahamas, fires devastate Indigenous lands in the world's largest rainforest, and democratic presidential candidates...

Midweek Video: How Eminent Domain Destroys Neighborhoods

https://youtu.be/w0cCF2pG13U From time to time, eminent domain in American has been used in unwise and unjust ways to demolish and remake neighborhoods. In this video,...

Sunday Video: The Buildings “Model Cities” Built

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnBo5nqUzI&t=1166s Model Cities is a little known chapter in our urban history. It was part of LBJ's War on Poverty, and was the last gasp...

Sunday Video: Why Your Public Transportation Sucks

https://youtu.be/1Z1KLpf_7tU Hasan Minhaj explains why the state of American public transportation is threatened and leaves a lot to desire.