Road diets and unintended consequences. One of the fashionable things cities big and small are doing these days is creating “road diets” to cut down on car usage. Usually, traffic worsens by design. What happens when you have a road diet in a fire evacuation zone? California just found out.
Mission Impossible: Paddington Edition. As former intern and frequent contributor Hannah Long (read her most recent item from this issue!) shares, this mashup of Paddington 2 and the most recent Mission Impossible movie is… awesome.
How lies become truth. Inside the operation of a purveyor of fake news.
Jacob Wohl’s hipster brew. Young Trump enthusiast Jacob Wohl has a strange tendency to share hard-to-believe things he witnesses at “hipster coffee shops.” The Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles has this satirical investigation into what is really going on inside these shops.
Thomas Sowell circles back. The famed economist and author sits down for an interview with Reason magazine to discuss all that has changed since the first time he talked with the libertarian publication in 1980.
Speaking of interviews… Here’s one with instant star mascot Gritty, of the Philadelphia Flyers. Bring a straw.
An agency that does nothing. Years of political gridlock have driven the Merit Systems Protection Board, “a quasi-judicial federal body designed to determine whether civil servants have been mistreated by their employers” to a halt. Will Congress do anything?
