Paul Krugman’s latest piece is about New York City. He spent some time there this week, and among personal observations, points out that: “New York is looking pretty good right now. Housing is still unaffordable; the failure to build enough housing, not an imaginary crime wave, is the city’s biggest problem. But dire predictions during… Continue reading

Max McCoy is a journalist from Kansas; you can check out his excellent work at the Kansas Reflector. I visited my favorite book store over the weekend and picked up a couple of volumes I’ve been looking forward to. I put one of them on my desk, just in front of my display, and opened… Continue reading

The Eames Institute has posted their list of “the curious 100.” It’s “a celebration of one hundred courageous leaders and creative minds across the United States who are harnessing the transformative power of curiosity to solve today’s most pressing problems.” The Eames in the institute’s name is Charles and Ray Eames, the famous design team that came up with… Continue reading

“As in Russia, we have let local newspapers and local media die. As in Russia, their place was taken by a few commercial operations. As in Russia, the media are owned by oligarchs, who then become close to government or submit to it (not all of the media in America, of course, are submitting, but… Continue reading

Joan Westenberg is going to “shut down [their] laptop, take a deep breath, step back from the endless to-do lists, and reconnect with what makes me a Goddamn human.“ When you see someone lamenting the effects of focusing too much on “productivity,” there’s almost always some mention of the tools they use. The tools, these… Continue reading