Eric Thurm News Today

Stories from the last strike can’t explain the current action. Nor should they necessarily give us comfort.

Hundreds of thousands of workers are currently excluded from receiving unemployment insurance in New York State.

"Even a public service is still a service, and even the most high-minded reporters still have to pay the rent."

After Biden blocked Trump’s attempt to change decades-old definitions, we’re basically back to where we started

Home Box Office (HBO) In television series, the finale often brings the most important, memorable moments with the power to taint the legacy of a show or gain more of a following. Finales are a way to track the progress of a character--or in some case...

The passage of the law especially benefits freelance workers who live outside of New York but are contracted by companies in the state.

Board game critic Eric Thurm argues that games carry subliminal messages — and that even some of the most innocuous games are often more political than we think.

It is modeled after a similar New York City law.

It’s always edifying to take note of which craziness on Riverdale ends up permeating the mainstream. Every week brings some nutty development, but it needs to be something with the right concise, out-there quality to inspire thousands of quote-RTs on Twitter—such as “Archie goes to modestly-budgeted war.” Those out of the loop, amused every time the show they think of as being about the Archie Comics deigns to be about the many other things it has chosen to be about, were dumbstruck to...