The Baffler

• The much touted (and well-funded) Start-Up New York Program created only 76 jobs last year, instead of the originally announced 2,300, according to news from the Cuomo administration. • REVOLVE clothing is offering same-day delivery service for fashion-minded ...

• Richard Nixon’s “Western White House” is on the market for $75 million. Unfortunately for prospective buyers of the San Clemente, California estate, you won’t be able to fill the pool or the fountain any time soon. • In Maharashtra, India, where ...

• In The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner writes on our “corporate saviors,” and why we should be skeptical of big corporations’ investment in social change. • Allentown, PA becomes the latest city to welcome an “innovation district” to its ...

• San Francisco-based Tasty Ties has rolled out a line of bow ties representing San Francisco neighborhoods, including an adorable saxophone tie to represent Fillmore Street—and a tie emblazoned with a handgun to represent Hunter’s Point. The offensive bow tie retails ...

• A new “luxury apartment hotel” in Philadelphia aims to make long-term hotel stays a glamorous commodity for the plutocrat on the go, and not just a reminder that you’ve probably been kicked out of your house. As Megan Ritchie Jooste writes in Curbed, ...

• In yet another report on the federal government’s slipping “innovation score,” Reuters finds that millennials looking for government jobs are more likely to seek out departments they perceive as having a culture of innovation. Luckily, President Obama has a ...

• The Obama administration takes some flak for its low “innovation score” in a new survey. • WBUR reviews Scott Timberg’s Culture Crash, outlining his proposal for economic protections for the creative class that leave everyone else high and dry. • The rental market ...

• TechCrunch recently hosted a meetup in Dubai for would-be startup entrepreneurs in the hopes of “disrupting” the Middle East. • Right in The Baffler’s own backyard, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is seeking to extend its “urban renewal authority” [read: ...