The Year's Most Important Housing Vote
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.
Other things less popular with American voters than capitalism: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, J.D. Vance, and socialism.
Plus: An interview with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about the state's blockbuster year for housing reform.
A tale from the Tortured Public Servants Department.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
Plus: a shaky bipartisan border deal, the looming Taylor Swift PSYOP, and the disappearance of the D.C. area's greatest landmark...
The pop singer's new concert film inadvertently makes the case for big businesses with sweeping market power.
Thank Swifties, not Joe Biden, for Ticketmaster's consumer-friendly pricing policy.
The site crashed because Swift is very popular, not because antitrust enforcement is too weak.
"It's stories and songs and films cut apart and written over, leaving no trace and no remnant of whatever used to be," writes novelist and cultural critic Kat Rosenfield.
Imma let you finish, but the Tay and Ye beef is the best political lesson of all time.
The world is grim enough without insisting every pop star become a revolutionary.
Swift is accused of ripping-off the lyrics to her hit song "Shake It Off," but lawyer Mike Godwin says the case is "almost certainly meritless."