Work in Progress
Derek Thompson, Rogé Karma, Annie Lowrey, Jerusalem Demsas, and others explain today’s news and tomorrow’s trends in work, technology, and culture. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Derek Thompson, Rogé Karma, Annie Lowrey, Jerusalem Demsas, and others explain today’s news and tomorrow’s trends in work, technology, and culture. Sign up for the newsletter here.
In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.
Eliminating degree requirements for jobs is very popular with voters but would do almost nothing to help workers who don’t have a college diploma.
America has officially defeated inflation without experiencing a recession—yet.
A niche pro-housing movement has convinced mainstream Democrats of the need to build.
Lonely Americans are thirsty for companionship and hungry for money.
Can Kamala Harris break the global incumbency curse?
The White House simply does not have great tools to bring the cost of living under control.
Police officers are falling in love with electric cars.
In large urban metros, the number of children under 5 years old is in a free fall.
We got duped into believing that every device we own should charge like a phone.
The political parties are more divided by their views on gender than they are divided by gender itself.
A major study reports good and bad news.
The failed assassination of Donald Trump might not have any lasting effect on the election or politics in general.
The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work.
No one really knows how interest rates work, or even whether they work at all—not the experts who study them, the investors who track them, or the officials who set them.
English-speaking teens are spreading their problems abroad.
Don’t complain about the price of a Big Mac. Complain about the price of a house.
Can workers’ power grow, even if union membership does not?
Population growth, economic growth, and income growth can be mutually reinforcing.
Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.