There should never be screens in taxicabs.

The rise of the Business Improvement District, especially in New York, has also contributed to this trend of hostile or absent seating through a shift in emphasis on gearing space toward private consumption and away from facilitating the spontaneous public gathering of different groups of citizens.

Exactly!!

elements of a deteriorating status quo. [end]

public about why they are taking those stances, and include people in shaping a government response to the material problems they face. This is very different from a politics that unethically asks us—as this editorial does—to be satisfied with merely splitting the difference between various

capitalism, but you wouldn’t know it from this piece. The problem isn’t that our politics isn’t centrist enough, it’s that it revolves around pandering and polling to determine an ever-shifting "center," as opposed to a politics in which leaders take principled and informed stances, help educate the

to socialism”? What does that mean? Many Democratic Socialists represent capitalism fused with elements of social democracy (like universal healthcare, well-funded education, and affordable housing). There is something called “market socialism.” Socialism isn’t just one thing and neither is