Jerusalem Demsas
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Kimberly White / Getty; The Atlantic The Billionaire’s Dilemma
Marc Andreessen says he’s all for more new housing, but public records tell a different story.
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Sergio Flores / Getty The U.S. Has No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
We treat pandemics as inevitable when we could commit to averting them.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Opening for Democrats on Abortion
Senate Democrats should take their cues from the House.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty The Next Generation of NIMBYs
Younger buyers who sunk their savings into new homes have too much to lose.
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Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty U.S. Messaging on Monkeypox Is Deeply Flawed
Officials seem unwilling to be direct about who is most at risk of the disease.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Fate of States’ Rights After Roe
It’s become clear that the anti-abortion movement won’t sit idly by while states enact the abortion policies their residents want.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Getty The Liberals Threatening to Pick Up and Leave
How abortion could scramble American geography
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The Atlantic; Getty Let the Rich Have Their Supertalls
American cities need to grow up.
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Photo by Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto / Getty The Real Villain in the Gentrification Story
It’s not young, upwardly mobile college grads.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Retrofile / Getty The People Who Hate People
Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Abortion Policy Most Americans Want
I dug into the numbers, and found that views were more straightforward than I thought—and the exercise was more disquieting than I anticipated.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Right to Move Is Under Attack
Declining rates of interstate mobility show that many Americans are stuck where they are, consigned to the political decisions of governments they may profoundly oppose.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Who Really Benefits From Student-Loan Forgiveness?
The proposal’s prominence has less to do with its merits than with college graduates’ agenda-setting power.
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Getty; The Atlantic Community Input Is Bad, Actually
Angry neighborhood associations have the power to halt the construction of vital infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Getty; Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Why So Many COVID Predictions Were Wrong
The eviction tsunami never happened. Neither did the “she-cession.” Here are four theories for the failed economic forecasting of the pandemic era.
