Let’s talk about a quiet but consequential piece of policy making its way through New York City right now — one that could fundamentally reshape who gets to own property in the five boroughs, and why it matters far beyond the Hudson River. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has thrown his weight behind the revival of COPA — the Community Opportunity to...
February 19, 2026
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Voter ID Laws: Is It Really About Illegal Immigrants — Or Is Something Else Going On?
Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. Every election cycle, the debate over voter ID laws gets loud, gets tribal, and gets exhausting — and both sides walk away more convinced than ever that the other is either naive or malicious. Conservatives say you need an ID to buy beer, board a plane, and open a bank account,...
The Shutdown Charade: How Congress Turned Budget Deadlines Into Political Hostage-Taking
Understanding the theater behind government shutdowns—and why they have nothing to do with America actually running out of money We’ve all seen it play out like clockwork: the breathless countdown to a “government shutdown,” politicians pointing fingers across the aisle, essential workers wondering if they’ll get paid, and the American people watching another episode of Washington’s favorite reality show. But...
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Reporter Zoë Bernard spent […]
- SpaceX’s Starbase city is getting its own courtby Sean O'Kane on February 19, 2026 at 7:55 pm
Elon Musk's company town […]
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Let’s talk about a quiet but consequential piece of policy making its way through New York City right now —...
Voter ID Laws: Is It Really About Illegal Immigrants — Or Is Something Else Going On?
Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. Every election cycle, the debate over voter ID laws gets loud,...
The Shutdown Charade: How Congress Turned Budget Deadlines Into Political Hostage-Taking
Understanding the theater behind government shutdowns—and why they have nothing to do with America actually running out of money We’ve...
The cryptocurrency designed to escape government oversight has instead enhanced the state’s ability to tax, monitor, and seize digital wealth
In 2008, an anonymous figure using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper describing Bitcoin as “a peer-to-peer electronic...
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An investigation into how the anti-establishment cryptocurrency became the very thing it was designed to oppose When Satoshi Nakamoto published...
The Epstein-Barr Problem: A Web of Coincidences That Defies Belief
There’s a running joke among alumni of Manhattan’s elite Dalton School — a dark, uncomfortable joke that landed differently after...
The Legal Minefield of Paying Protesters: Can Organizations Face Liability for Creating Unsafe Working Conditions?
Picture this: An organization hires dozens of people to attend a demonstration, pays them cash or provides other compensation, and...
The Uncomfortable Truth Billie Eilish Accidentally Highlighted
When Billie Eilish stood on the Grammy stage and declared “no one is illegal on stolen land,” she probably didn’t...
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- The boys’ club no one was supposed to write aboutby Connie Loizos on February 19, 2026 at 7:58 pm
Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for […]
- SpaceX’s Starbase city is getting its own courtby Sean O'Kane on February 19, 2026 at 7:55 pm
Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.
- As browser wars heat up, Chrome adds new productivity featuresby Sarah Perez on February 19, 2026 at 6:30 pm
Split View, PDF annotations and 'Save to Chrome' features come to the Chrome browser.
- Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shoppingby Aisha Malik on February 19, 2026 at 6:22 pm
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct […]
- Meta is shutting down Messenger’s standalone websiteby Aisha Malik on February 19, 2026 at 5:01 pm
The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
- New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion planby Kirsten Korosec on February 19, 2026 at 4:53 pm
The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo.
- Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teensby Sarah Perez on February 19, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.
- SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge US gas power plantby Tim De Chant on February 19, 2026 at 4:27 pm
If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.
- OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuationby Rebecca Bellan on February 19, 2026 at 3:35 pm
OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would […]
- Current is a new RSS reader that’s more like a river than an inboxby Sarah Perez on February 19, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.
- Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer informationby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on February 19, 2026 at 3:25 pm
The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including […]
- Bug in student admissions website exposed children’s personal informationby Zack Whittaker on February 19, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids' applications across thousands of schools, allowed any logged-in user to […]