The baby-formula shortage is just the latest in a string of economic troubles that are showing us all just how unjust an unregulated free market can be. We don’t actually want a free-for-all system, and we’re just waking up to that, crisis-by-crisis. I took this photo at my local grocery…

I have to admit when I saw Riz Ahmed’s Oscar-winning short film, The Long Goodbye, I wasn’t in love. It is intense. It is poignant. And it was clearly made my top-tier talent. But it felt like a music video, which, when you consider that it was released in tandem…

It feels so good to wear my medium shirts again. Not my Medium shirts. I do have one of those. But my medium (M) shirts. Actually, my boyfriend wears my Medium shirt. It shrunk a bit in the laundry so it fits him. He’s a small (S). When we met…

When Amazon announced in the fall of 2017 that it was opening a $100 million, 855k-square-foot warehouse on Staten Island, New York’s fifth and most suburban borough, I will admit I cringed. Did it mean jobs? Yes. Did it breathe new life into re-development efforts for Staten Island’s west shore…

New York has been through a lot these last few years. It needs a joint. But do we really all need to smell it? Hello from New York City. It has been a year since the now-disgraced Governor Cuomo signed into law new regulations that made recreational use of weed…

Looks like John Oliver is trending across the internet today because he is holding hostage the personal data of some click-happy members of Congress. Twitter has lit up in praise of the stunt. Well done, good sir. Hollywood and Washington, DC, have always been strange bed fellows. In the popular…

No one needs another hot take on what happened last night, so if you don’t continue reading I totally get it. Just seconds after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on live television, social media lit up with jokes, memes, and commentary from across the country and around the globe —…

A new level of absurdity — House Democrats this week introduced a bill to send “stimulus” checks to consumers to alleviate the ongoing pain at the pump. Under the proposed legislation, for the rest of the year, individuals making $75,000 or less (or couples making $150k or less) would see a $100 check when gas prices…

Sunday is the Oscars, and despite the controversy about not televising some very major craft awards, I am excited to watch — if for no other reason than it has been a long and depressing winter in New York and in the world. Here are some quickie reviews, from the…