What America Can Learn From Nordic Police
Nordic police and prisons are so wildly different than American ones that it's fair to say they are not even the same kind of institutions.
Nordic police and prisons are so wildly different than American ones that it's fair to say they are not even the same kind of institutions.
Imagine this: the year is 2013. You've got 25 billion dollars you'd like to flush down the toilet, but your personal commode simply can't handle an entire cargo plane full of 100-dollar bills. Luckily for you, Uber is there.
Here are a few factors that undoubtedly contributed to his loss — his age, lockstep opposition from the Democratic establishment and a hostile mainstream media.
The premise is exactly what it sounds like: Home renovators fix up houses where people were killed.
"Pandemic control measures work in dense cities just as they do in rural areas (which are not remotely immune to viral epidemics), and Cuomo was inexcusably lax in setting them up."
At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights.
Unexplained discrepancies are appearing in measurements of how rapidly the universe is expanding.
Most of us have limited choices about how to pay the bills, so it's easy to see why we rarely put our work lives into a moral framework. But maybe we should.
The blobs are eye-catching. They're colorful. You're not quite sure what they're depicting at first — are those hands? Wine glasses?
Is Joe Biden, contrary to his centrist reputation, a tax-and-spend liberal?
The internet, notoriously, is the mechanism by which all our most embarrassing and evil deeds live on forever, but it's also a fragile, immaterial place. The keystroke of a petty billionaire could take thousands upon thousands of words away without warning, and the snip of an underwater cable could take it all away irrevocably. But even without such an extinction-level event, what's lost on the internet threatens to be lost for good.
"The longing I felt for James Dean and everything he represented to me wasn't some tickle of butterflies in the belly. It was thirst."
Watching the second season finale of "Succession" the same weekend as "El Camino," the movie followup to "Breaking Bad," had me thinking about how much "prestige TV" has changed in the last few years.
Boeing's now-infamous 737 Max was grounded around the world back in March. Assumptions at the time were that the worst-case scenario might keep the planes on the ground for a few months, and cost Boeing around $5 billion. Well, here we are seven months later. The 737 Max remains on the ground, in what is now arguably the biggest crisis ever for the century-old company.