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New High-End (“Luxury”) Housing Construction Really Does Help Everyone
“A new rung at the top of the housing ladder permits people lower down to climb…
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The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country
There are many plausible explanations for the recent crime downturn: sharper policing strategy, more police overtime,…
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The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda
The U.S. Labor Department is embracing Nazi slogans and tropes, the Pentagon’s research office is deploying neo-Nazi…
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How The U.S. Made It Impossible To Build
Progressives designed reforms to stop government abuse in the 1960s. Those same protections now make it…
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There Are No Pure Cultures – We Have Always Been Global
In the 1990s, an entire generation was robbed of its historical consciousness by a powerful and…
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How Immigrant Labor Came To Define the Construction Industry
An oft-repeated explanation for this sea change is that immigrants took jobs from Americans while, somewhat…
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Choosing Science
“We live simultaneously in “the utopian age” in which a baby with a deadly genetic condition…
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Student Achievement Has Fallen Off A Cliff. Neither Trump Nor The Pandemic Is To Blame
My kid attends a regular ole school in the Los Angeles Unified School District [LAUSD]. You…
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The 8 Stages of Right-Wing Climate Change Denial
I wrote this in 2014(!) and it’s still true. The only change I would make is…
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Musk’s Comments About South Africa Reveal He Never Really Knew The Place
Elon Musk was born in South Africa during the apartheid era. Isaacson’s biography makes much of…
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South Africa Was The World’s Most Fastidiously Organized White Supremacist State
When I first arrived in South Africa in 2009, it still felt as if a storm…
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New Food Pyramid Is a Gift to the Meat Industry
When the Trump administration released its new dietary guidelines, with an emphasis on animal-based proteins and…
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Britain Pushed Ahead With Green Power. Its Grid Can’t Handle It.
Countries are racing to install renewable energy capacity, but have failed to build the electrical grid…
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Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based…
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The Class Where “Screenagers” Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I.
New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.…
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What Happens When Disaster Recovery Becomes a Luxury Good
FEMA money is funneled to disaster relief nonprofits that then hire case managers to guide victims…
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The 1911 Textbook That Made 8th Graders Chicago’s Future Planners
Thank you to the Chicago Architecture Center for letting us know about the existence of this…
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Most of Our Best Neighborhoods Would Be Illegal Today
[Pictured: A block of Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.] Did you enjoy the book “Abundance”…
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