The Humiliating History of the TSA
There’s no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travelers any safer — so why does the theater of airport security persist?
Redline
The story of the 737 Max is ultimately the story of the Darwinian business cycle, where mature companies like Boeing face constant threats from new products, new competitors, and the search for new growth. Sometimes this motivates them to new heights of innovation and progress. Other times, it prompts them to pull everything back in the name of cost-cutting.
Cabin Pressure
The airline industry has always had its ups and downs, from recessions to gas prices to COVID-19. But when things get unstable, flight attendants are the first to feel the pain.
A Dropout’s Tale
In May of 2010, I dropped out of grad school. On a stormy spring morning, I left a Separation from the University form in my departmental administrator’s mailbox, said goodbye to the University of Notre Dame one last time, and drove my battered Ford Focus westward on I-90, Seattle-bound.
I had no job prospects and not much of an idea what I was going to do when I got there. But for the last eight years, I had an abundance of certainty: an idea where I wanted to go over the next thirty years, how I was going to get there, and what I was going to do along the way. Maybe I needed the exact opposite to get things right again.
What Happens When the Police Misidentify You as the Dallas Shooter
Texas is a great place to be a gun owner. Unless, as Mark Hughes discovered, you are black.
Who Needs Cooking Lessons?
Everything about Asian food is officially upside down. It has finally broken free of the takeout box but maybe it’s swung too far in the other direction, to a point where people are most likely to learn to make it from non-Asian chefs and television personalities. Just as Asian food is winning converts outside of Asian America, it is losing young Asian Americans who lack the time, interest or confidence to cook traditional foods.