Annie Lowrey
She is the author of Give People Money, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Prior to joining The Atlantic, she was a staff writer for The New York Times and New York magazine, as well as the Moneybox columnist for Slate. At The Atlantic, she writes about the economy and politics.
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Gabrielle Lurie / San Francisco Chronicle / Getty The People vs. Chesa Boudin
San Franciscans do not feel safe and secure.
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Getty; The Atlantic Four Years Among the NIMBYs
Robert Fruchtman has documented dozens of community meetings, making it easier for activists, politicians, and journalists to notice San Francisco’s housing crisis and get involved.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Everyone Is So Mad About the Economy
Nobody escapes inflation.
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Getty ; The Atlantic $100 Million to Cut the Time Tax
The nonprofit Code for America thinks it can unwind the administrative burdens that annoy and impoverish countless families.
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Carolyn Drake / Magnum The Wrong Way to Tackle Inflation
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal sounds reasonable, given that gas costs $5 a gallon or more in much of the state. It is not.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Inflation Is Bad and About to Get Worse
Rising inflation is raising the prospect of a period of economic stagnation or even a recession.
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Getty; The Atlantic Can Sanctions Stop Russia?
Nicholas Mulder, the author of a new book on the history of sanctions, explains the West’s use of the “economic weapon.”
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty; … Biden’s State of the Union Audience of One
By pivoting to deficit reduction, the president is sending a signal to Senator Joe Manchin.
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Jeenah Moon / Bloomberg / Getty Good Luck Convincing Anyone That the Economy Is Strong
Joe Biden has plenty to brag about at the State of Union. Is anyone going to believe him?
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Andrew Burton / The New York Times / … NIMBYism Reaches Its Apotheosis
Phil Bokovoy thinks Berkeley the school is putting Berkeley the city at risk. And he sued to stop it.
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Alamy; The Atlantic Where Biden Agrees With Trump
The Biden administration has been more skeptical of free trade than many predicted, and remains hawkish toward China.
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Sarah Reingewirtz / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles … What Is Larry Elder Running For?
The brief, strange political career of the man who leads the Republican pack in the California recall election.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Is This the End of Welfare as We Know It?
The overnight success of the new child tax credit has experts and parents taking a hard look at traditional welfare.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Pandemic Business Boom
COVID-19 killed countless businesses. Surprisingly, it also launched a whole bunch of new ones.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Time Tax
Why is so much American bureaucracy left to average citizens?
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Getty / The Atlantic Cash for Kids Comes to the United States
The new child tax credit will radically reduce poverty, but millions of the poorest children might miss out.
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Sarah Elly The App That Monetized Doing Nothing
Inside the meteoric, chilled-out, totally paradoxical rise of Calm
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Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg / Getty Workers Should Have the Power to Say ‘No’
Policy makers should not ensure a flood of low-wage workers for America’s businesses.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up
Today’s economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts.
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Getty Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed
The label “low-skill” flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the jobs they do.
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