What the Hell Is Going On In West Virginia?
wesvandinter/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, Republicans in West Virginia impeached the state’s entire Supreme Court, a first in US history, over a scandal involving allegations of wasteful spending, poor administrative decisions, and criminal misconduct. Now the state’s governor, a Republican, has appointed two Republican lawmakers to temporarily serve…
Raw Data: Rental Prices in Orange County
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s another chart that makes a point I didn’t have room for in this morning’s post on urbanization. It’s an example of why I consider urbanization per se a modest problem compared to everything else on the progressive agenda. It’s a little busy (sorry) but…
Unions Just Scored a Win Against the Trump Administration
Union activists and supporters rally in Lower Manhattan in June.Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Unions just scored a victory against the Trump administration, which has steadily been working to weaken the power of organized labor. A federal judge in Washington on Friday struck down most provisions of…
President Trump Just Issued a Disturbing Threat Against the FBI
Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump, still reeling from a week of legal blows to his former campaign chair and lawyer, who has implicated the president in allegations of campaign finance violations, lashed out on Saturday at the Justice Department, returning to one of his favorite topics: Hillary…
My Real Problem With Urbanization
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After my post two days ago about urbanization—i.e., the general desire to make big cities even bigger—I ended up in a Twitter conversation with David Schleicher that started getting into the weeds of land-use rules and the economic benefits of building more housing in large…
One Year After Harvey, Houston Awaits the Next Flood
Julie Dermansky/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Darlene Wilkens’ branch of Spartan Insurance had flooded before, but never like this. A year ago, as she watched horrifying coverage of Hurricane Harvey from home, she realized her…