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The Root of all Election Evil
Cleaning up American campaign finance may have to become job one.
 • James S. Russell
The Antidote to Persian Gulf Oil Extortion
Trump's Iran fiasco has put the globe in an energy vice. Cutting demand is fast, doable and effectively deprives fossil-fuel predators of power.
 • James S. Russell
Detention Center Style for Trump Ballroom Entry
A grim bunker is proposed to screen visitors to the nation’s most important and symbolic residence.
 • James S. Russell
Balancing Bravura and Deference
After a two-year closure the New Museum reasserts its centrality in New York's art ecosystem with a new addition and a blockbuster show.
 • James S. Russell
Ballroom Approval on Autopilot
More ballroom details, less oversight
 • James S. Russell
How Minneapolis Beat ICE
An effective resistance was backed up by an extraordinary network of volunteer mutual-aid groups.
 • James S. Russell
Trump's Slapped Together Seat of Empire
The White House Ballroom project seeks to create "facts on the ground" as a physical and irreversible manifestation of the power Trump thinks he wields.
 • James S. Russell
Architecture and the City
Architecture and the City
Longtime journalist James S. Russell offers fresh perspectives and often-missed context at the intersection of the cultures of architecture and cities.
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