This documentary examines the economic changes and managerial missteps that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975 and the political creativity and enduring cost of the rescue.
"The traditionalist side of the Catholic Church in the United States has tolerated Francis, resented him, denigrated him, ignored him," the writer Paul Elie says. "But also attached themself to his popularity when it suited their purposes."
During testimony at Meta's antitrust trial, the Facebook founder's argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.
Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.
Kirk Johnson's documentary short follows two young men, one of whom is driven to distraction by a nearby dying smoke alarm, on their quest to make things right.
