Technology
The Last Quiet Job in the Data Center
Everything in the building is automated except the person walking its aisles at 3 a.m. A night shift with the technicians who keep the cloud physical.
By Jonas Feld · 7 min read
The Wire
Downtown conversions pass ten thousand new apartments this quarter
Night-shift technicians vote to keep the 3 a.m. walk-through
Glacier blankets bought one more summer, surveyors say
Independent bookstores post their best year since 2009
Rotterdam's water squares swallow a hundred-year storm
GPS backup network clears its first city-wide trial
Climate
The Blanket Menders of the Alps
Every June, a small crew hikes up to wrap a dying glacier in white. It works — a little. The question is what working means now.
By Lena Hartwig · 9 min read
Downtown office towers at blue hour, one wrapped in construction scaffolding
The Quiet Conversion of the American Downtown
Office towers that emptied out half a decade ago are filling up again — as apartments. Inside the unglamorous engineering that turns cubicles into kitchens.
By Ada Merrick · July 26, 2026 · 8 min read
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The Unreasonable Comeback of the Neighborhood Bookstore
Rents are up, attention is down, and the algorithm sells everything cheaper. So why are there more independent bookstores this year than any year since 2009?
By Theo Brandt · 6 min read
July 22, 2026
Saturday Night at the Single-Screen
The multiplex optimized for everything except the reason people go. A love letter to the four-hundred-seat rooms that refused to die.
By Imani Cole · 5 min read
The Weekend Feature
The Blanket Menders of the Alps
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Photograph by Milo Andrade for The Newspaper
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Opinion
Columns from the desks
A city that cannot house its nurses and teachers is not expensive. It is broken — and expensive is the word we use to avoid saying so.
Ada Merrick
Cities Correspondent
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We did not fall out of love with reading. We fell out of the habit of being unreachable, and books were collateral damage.
Theo Brandt
Culture Critic
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Adaptation is not surrender. Ask the crew hauling blankets up a glacier at dawn what refusing to quit actually looks like.
Lena Hartwig
Climate Desk
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Ada Merrick
Cities Correspondent
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We did not fall out of love with reading. We fell out of the habit of being unreachable, and books were collateral damage.
Theo Brandt
Culture Critic
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Adaptation is not surrender. Ask the crew hauling blankets up a glacier at dawn what refusing to quit actually looks like.
Lena Hartwig
Climate Desk
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