Last spring, a nineteen-year-old boy named Marcus was loading a Lincoln Electric welder into the bed of a used Ford Ranger that he had purchased outright…
Author: Sam Allcock
There is an almost staged silence in the Oakland courtroom, the kind of silence that only occurs when something costly is taking place there. Dark-suited lawyers…
These days, when the debt ceiling is raised, there’s an odd silence in Washington. It’s more like exhaustion than silence. The kind that takes hold after…
The current global chip shortage story does not start in a Taiwanese fabrication plant or a Silicon Valley boardroom. Strangely enough, it starts in Icheon, a…
A 1927 law that is still in effect in 2026 has an almost charming quality. The federal ban on mailing concealable firearms was drafted during the…
If you’ve been following the Mark Kelly case long enough, the first thing you notice is how calm it seems on his end and how hectic…
When most Americans first heard the phrase “Alligator Alcatraz,” it sounded more like a line written for cable news than a policy. Last summer, the attorney…
Every month on the first Friday, just before the 8:30 a.m. jobs number drops, there is a certain silence on a trading floor. The sound of…
I know a man in Bangalore who still writes code by hand. He opens a blank file, types every character himself, rejects autocomplete, and laughs when…
The idea that the USPS, the same organization that delivers birthday cards and Amazon returns, might soon be transporting firearms from one private citizen to another…