Day: September 11, 2019

The Unicorn, Undone, Watchmen, and Stumptown are all shows worth watching this fall. | CBS, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, ABC Featuring Watchmen, Stumptown, Modern Love, and a dozen more options worth checking out. In 2017, we dubbed the fall season the worst in recent memory, thanks to its stunningly boring array of unoriginal, undistinguished shows, led by a broadcast network lineup that didn’t bother doing anything new or even interesting. In 2018, we declared the…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on September 10, 2019. | Toby Melville/WPA Pool/Getty Images It’s a big deal — but Parliament remains suspended, for now. The British Parliament is on a five-week break. Or is it? That’s the question UK courts are currently trying to decide: whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend — or “prorogue” — Parliament from September 9 until October 14 is lawful. And right now, the various courts involved don’t seem…

A sign at the British Airways ticket counter at San Francisco International Airport saying a flight is canceled. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images For an industry that relies on a specialized workforce, labor strikes can completely halt an airline’s operations. In an ideal world, workers go on strike to leverage labor power and bargain with employers — often completely stopping business for a few days and almost always at the expense of the company. When airline…

Migrants wait in line on the border in Tijuana, Mexico, to get an appointment to apply for asylum in the US. | Omar Martinez/picture alliance via Getty Images Delaying work permits for asylum seekers would force them into the shadow economy. The Trump administration wants to impose yet another hurdle on asylum seekers: making it much more difficult for them to get work permits during the months or years it takes for their claims to make…

Jonathan Franzen. | Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Scientists are pissed at the novelist — and at the New Yorker for publishing him. Jonathan Franzen writes about climate change. Twitter erupts in anger. It’s the circle of life as we denizens of the internet have come to know it in recent years. Franzen is most famous for authoring novels like The Corrections and Freedom, but he’s also developed a pattern of writing controversial takes on the environment….