July 13, 2022
Where Are Legislators in the Fight Against Inflation?
The Federal Reserve has only one tool to stem inflation. Congress has many. Why are politicians so reluctant to use them?
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July 5, 2022
After the Eviction Moratorium
The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court
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June 27, 2022
1989-2001: America’s Long Lost Weekend
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. It was an opportunity to salve some festering national wounds. We squandered it completely—and helped give rise to the crises we’re dealing with today.
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June 23, 2022
June 15, 2022
Joe Biden’s Debt Cancellation Games
Why are Democrats playing cat and mouse with student debtors?
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June 13, 2022
Will Merrick Garland Defend Democracy?
He came in wanting to depoliticize the Justice Department. But does that mean letting an ex-president get away with subverting democracy?
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June 1, 2022
The Rent Is Too Damn High
Rents in New York City and around the country are at record levels. Is this forever?
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May 19, 2022
Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex
Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.
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May 18, 2022
How Disney World Struck a Deal With Florida to Govern Itself
The resort’s real magic lies in the powers it’s afforded by a special district.
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May 9, 2022
May 6, 2022
The Feigned Ignorance and Callous Indifference of the Supreme Court’s Anti-Roe Majority
The conservative justices are poised to demolish a half-century legal precedent on abortion rights—and they either don’t understand, or don’t care about, the anguish of unwanted pregnancy.
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May 4, 2022
So Long, DDT. See You Around Soon.
The United States banned the incredibly toxic pesticide DDT in the early 1970s. But it never went away.
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April 14, 2022
Can the Global “Autocratic Tsunami”
Be Stopped?
Putin’s aggression is only part of the grim story of why democracy is in retreat.
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April 6, 2022
The Unlikely Success of Permanent Daylight Saving Time
Even a broken Senate is right twice a day.
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April 5, 2022
How Viktor Orbán Built His Illiberal State
Fidesz’s victory Sunday was the culmination of many events that, once upon a time, we thought couldn’t happen here.
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April 4, 2022
March 28, 2022
Why Teachers Are Afraid to Teach History
The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.
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March 24, 2022
The End of Russia Today
The openly biased, often silly news outlet RT America recently shut down. What have we lost?
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March 17, 2022
March 9, 2022
Too Fast or Too Furious?
More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?
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