America tells itself that we are a beacon welcoming the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but our immigration policy tells a decidedly different story. We are a nation that is outwardly hostile to the wretched refuse of your teeming shore or the turns away the homeless and tempest-tost. We will no longer lift our lamp beside the golden door.
The New Yorker
This image, created for MTA Arts for Transit’s popular art card series, is a celebration of baseball and the elevated trains in the outerborough neighborhoods where the Mets, Yankees, Cyclones and Ferry Hawks play ball.
Signed, limited-edition artists proofs are available for sale here
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Springtime in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Unpublished
As the pandemic drags on, the isolation and monotony of remote work has taken a toll on workers. Many employees report that they are having difficulty focusing on their work.
The Wall Street Journal
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ workforce participation numbers are on the decline, but don’t blame COVID-19. What we’re seeing now is the continuation of pre-pandemic trends like Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and young men not seeking employment at all.
The Wall Street Journal
The short-, medium- and long-term outlook for the cruise industry is not great.
Barron’s
In order to save the planet from the worst effects of climate change, we’re going to need to develop and deploy technologies capable of removing large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
We Demain
Public health measures and breakthrough scientific discoveries have led to a significant decline in lung cancer deaths. While it’s still the leading cause of cancer deaths, better treatments and the search for a cure are changing the outlook for patients.
Cedars Sinai
Are we going to experience the return of crushing 1970’s-style inflation?
The Property Chronicle
Students, faculty and staff are back on campus. Everyone has to deal with the fallout from the pandemic.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The popularity of home DNA tests is releasing a Pandora’s Box worth of long-hidden secrets into the world. Those secrets don’t just affect you and your family, but often end up entangling strangers as well. This raises an ethical dilemna–should one person’s right to know supercede another person’s privacy?
The Wall Street Journal
Governments are bad at predicting the next crisis. Too often, they find themselves using past events to predict future disasters. This shortcoming leaves us drastically unprepared to deal with the multiple, simultaneous disasters that climate change will bring.
The Council on Foreign Relations attempts to diagnose what’s behind this aversion to planning and poor track record of predictions in an effort to improve both.
Foreign Affairs
Sometimes armies outsmart and outmanuever their opponents on the battlefield. Other times they simply charge and overwhelm the enemy. D-Day was a success because of the latter strategy. A group of paratroopers landed behind enemy lines and ran headfirst into heavy German defenses to capture a bridge between Utah Beach and the port at Cherbourg. Their bravery, which is still celebrated today, was critical in allowing the Allies to advance from the beaches of Normandy and into France.
Wotld War II Magazine
Art for a series of stories on Learn the Playbook, a company offering SAT and ACT test prep courses
Don’t fall for trap answers.
The value of taking the PSAT, the practice SAT test
Should you travel to another state to take the SAT or ACT?
Strategies to relieve stress before the big test.
The pandemic’s impact on the tests.
What’s a good score?
© Learn The Playbook
Art from a seiers of stories for The Wall Street Journal highlighting the challenges of traveling in the age of Covid-19:
Everything you need to keeping yourself safe while traveling.
I’m vaccinated, where can I fly?
All your options for getting tested before you get on the plane.
Do you need a travel agent to help navigate the world of pandemic-related travel restrictions? Or can you wing it and figure it out yourself?
Conservative activists are keeping a close eye on college campuses. What they find is used to stoke outrage in the culture wars and push policies that silence critics and curtail academic independence at state universities.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In the old days, everyone worked with at one job for their entire career and got a gold watch when they retired after 30 years.
Actually, that never happened. Employee loyalty and gold watches are as mythical as the Loch Ness monster. In fact, people today are staying in their jobs longer than ever before.
While the stability of a job sounds great, it’s actually a trap–one that lowers individuals wages and saps the economy of energy and ingenuity.
The Milken Review
In praise of the scientific method.
The Wall Street Journal
Researchers have found that a spike in hate-filled tweets in one location is followed by reports of real-life violence in the same area.
How much influence do bots have on elections?
New York University Alumni Magazine
The shift to remote work has people emptying their closets and selling their unwanted and unneeded extra clothes for extra cash on sites like Poshmark and eBay.
The Wall Street Journal
Select spots from Saltwater Sportsman’s conservation column
Sea Lion’s wreak havoc for recreational fisherman
Leaving decommissioned oil rig in place may be the most environmentally friendly option.
Recreational fisherman get an unfair share of the blame for overfishing.
Climate change is happening and we’re the frog in the pot.
Geographic fishing restrictions.
Should recreational bag limits reflect commercial fishing restrictions?
Is Seaspiracy alarmist entertainment or close to the truth?
Our role in causing and fixing overfishing.
Everyone’s favorite menu item–QR codes.
The Wall Street Journal
The pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests have a college re-thing its role in the world
Johns Hopkins University
Surefire ways to liven up your windows.
The Wall Street Journal
A rundown of all the destinations sure to please your globe-trotting ski bum family members.
The Wall Street Journal
A foggy day in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Unpublished
Advancements in AI have vastly improved the ability to see what new furniture or a new carpet will actually look like in your home before you buy it.
The Wall Street Journal
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred finds himself trapped by the fallout from the Houston Astros cheating scandal. His attempts at damage control have only made it worse.
The New York Times
Reflections on the health of the nation’s political and government institutions.
Rochester Review
University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban is known as a defensive mastermind. Now, however, he finds himself leading an offensive juggernaut.
The New York Times
Prometheus Fuels is a start-up that harvests carbon from the atmosphere to make fuel. At the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company used it’s technology to manufacture plastic face shields for hospitals across the United States.
Prometheus Fuels
The joint U.S.-Ukrainian effort to combat Russia’s government-backed hackers.
A newspaper editor is forced to skip the annual challenge of a whitewater rafting trip in order to deal with the unrelenting stream of pandemic news from his home.
Rice University
The United States needs a World War II-level of mobilization and investment in research and development to have any chance at winning the fight against climate change.
Mother Jones
Cultivating sustainable business models.
Harvard Business Review
Art for Lehigh Business Magazine’s Covid issue
Navigating a world upended by the pandemic.
Will the office go the way of the dinosaur?
Supply chain disruptions
Lehigh University
Scientist are beginning to understand how and why music helps us form and recall memories.
The University of Rochester
Researchers at Harvard University have found a connection between real estate prices and public school teacher compensation. When the latter increases, the former tends to follow.
Harvard Magazine
Analysts see a bull market on the horizon, once the pandemic recedes and the lockdowns come to an end.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
A review of several books that give us a peek behind the masks our fathers wear.
The Boston Globe
Facebook relies on an army of contractors in the Philippines to delete posts featuring murders, rapes, suicides and all sorts of other horrible things. While this work keeps the internet giant’s reputation intact, it’s giving the people doing the job PTSD and no one is offering them any support.
The Washington Post
As the European Union leaders push for greater cooperation between member states, they’re dealing with a parliament full of nationalists who would like to see the bloc break up.
Politico Europe
The myths America tells about itself hide an uglier truth that often emerges in the form of legislation and executive orders from Washington.
Unpublished
Ride sharing services Uber and Lyft have a problem with their drivers preying upon passengers. Neither company has moved fast enough to address the problem.
The Ringer
As artificial intelligence and automation take over the world, there will be fewer opportunities for people to learn how to use the technology on the job. Getting ahead may mean lurking around the office after hours and practicing how to use the techology on your own.
Harvard Business Review
The pandemic has lead to a dramatic increase in the number of non-traditional classroom settings that let students determine what and how they’re going to study.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Foreign Policy examines the future of work.
Apps like Uber will bring formalize employee-employer relations in the developing world
Employees should expect to be monitored anytime they’re connected to company hardware or software
Automation will succeed where it helps workers get their jobs done better and faster
The field of medicine may become highly automated, but there will always be a need for human caregivers
For their annual boat buyer’s guide, Bonnier asked boat owners what the features and capabilities they were looking for when they bought their boats. Their answers:
1. The ability to outrun storms
2. A boat that’s good at more than one thing
3. A center console that’s not too tall
4. One that’s easy to maintain
The American Planning Association and Lincoln Land Institute’s Annual Trend Report for Planners takes a look at the problems and projects that need to happen now as well as the one’s that are coming down the road.
Colleges and universities navigate the uncharted waters of dealing with a largely remote workforce.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
If winter weather and airport layovers aren’t your thing, now you can fly direct from JFK to Palm Springs...at least until spring. It’s one of the seasonal direct flights airlines are piloting.
The Wall Street Journal