If you spend any amount of time at all in American suburbs, you can't miss it: the ongoing proliferation of ever more ingeniously designed restaurant drive-thrus. Multi-lane Chick-Fil-As and In-N-Outs. Raising Cane's and Dutch Bros. drive aisles with iPad-wielding
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City life, model trains, and muddling through to adulthood in Seattle's Pioneer Square Here's how the interview went. The four of us sat on the hardwood floor of a second story office just above Magic Mouse Toys, a shop on First and Yesler in Seattle'
Note: this piece is adapted from, and expands on, my recent video on House apportionment, gerrymandering, and structural pro-rural bias in our congress. It's not strictly necessary, but you might want to watch here on Nebula, or embedded below on YouTube (with ads and sponsor content, though)
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Welcome to Ask a City Nerd. Got a question you want answered? Or a story I can use as a jumping-off point for lengthy digressions on things I wanted to talk about in the first place? Submit it here! Submissions are lightly edited for anonymity and conciseness. Hi Ray,
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Welcome to Ask a City Nerd. Got a question you want answered? Or a story I can use as a jumping-off point for lengthy digressions on things I wanted to talk about in the first place? Submit it here! And welcome to installment number one. Hi City Nerd, You&
(WARNING: This is a piece about making New Yorkers mad, and when New Yorkers get mad, profanity ensues. That's just how it is. You've been cautioned.) In April of this year, I went to New York to do a speaking engagement at Hunter College, and to