City Life

Vagrants: Can San Francisco handle its homeless?
Graffiti: A new breed of mischief-makers leave knitted animals around London.
Poverty: With no jobs in the private sector, it’s up to L.A. County to create jobs.
Dickens: George Packer finds a fan of the writer in Lagos.

The Word

Amazing: It’s an overused and now dying term.
Gubernatorial: Why don’t we like the official adjective?

*Photo courtesy vemma.