Rents Are Too Damn High and the World Is Too Damn Hot. Both Are About to Make Gentrification Worse.
A young woman walks through the parking lot of a Conroe, Texas, house whose owners have installed tents. A thin sheet of snow blanketed the Houston area on December 8, 2017. Alicia L. Pérez/EFE/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part…
Human Power Computers Are Not Too Far Over the Horizon
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brad DeLong posts a Wikipedia page today showing the cost of computing power over time. I adjusted it to show the cost of about 30 petaflops of computing power, which is roughly the consensus estimate of the power of the human brain. Here it is:…
Federal Judge Dismisses Trivial Lawsuit
US District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, a couple of Democratic donors and a former mid-level staffer for the DNC filed a longshot suit against Roger Stone and the Trump campaign. They alleged that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to hack…
A Judge Just Rejected the Trump Administration’s Request to Keep Some Families Separated
Buena Ventura Martin-Godinez, right, stands with her daughter Janne after being reunited at Miami International Airport on Sunday.Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s argument that it shouldn’t have to reunite children with parents who have been deported. During a court hearing…
A Top Gun Control Group Just Endorsed a Republican Gun Rights Defender
The March for Our Lives gun control rally in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2018Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick received a coveted endorsement that no other Republican has obtained this election cycle. Fitzpatrick, the GOP incumbent in Pennsylvania’s highly competitive 1st Congressional…
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in June
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American economy gained 213,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 123,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate rose to 4.0 percent, largely because a whopping 600 thousand…