New York’s tolling system has reduced traffic and generated hundreds of millions for transit. It has also revealed something more uncomfortable: policies designed around averages can impose disproportionate costs on the workers least able to change how they move through the city. Six months into New York’s congestion pricing experiment, the results are in —…
New data from Quest Diagnostics shows corporate positive rates rising as major employers quietly drop pre-hire marijuana screening — with or without a clear federal signal to do so. The numbers are moving in two directions at once, and together they tell a story about how corporate marijuana policy is actually being made in America…
The automaker’s plan to shrink its model lineup by as much as half is being presented as simplification. The unresolved question is how much labor and factory capacity disappears with it. Volkswagen has decided that it makes too many cars. After reporting an 8.6% decline in second-quarter global sales — including a drop of more…
The former Miami rapper’s response to JT’s “Satan’s ex-wife” role shows how conversion can change the meaning of a cultural legacy without giving its creator control over what the next generation does with it. Ariela Anís of Hollywood Unlocked reported that JT faced criticism after appearing as “Satan’s ex-wife” in PsyFi, a 34-minute video installation written…
America’s largest retailers are expanding primary care, pharmacy, and preventive health services, accelerating a shift that is redefining where healthcare begins — and who controls access to it. For most of the last century, healthcare followed a predictable geography. People became sick, called a doctor’s office, and went to a hospital if the problem was…
Nearly 57,000 rent-stabilized apartments sat vacant last year, revealing that New York’s housing crisis is no longer only about supply. It is also about whether the system knows how to return existing homes to the people who need them. The New York Post reported on July 6 that approximately 57,000 rent-stabilized apartments across New York…
An 18-year-old Black college athlete went to a Mississippi island with a group of friends on the Fourth of July. He was the only Black person there. He was the only one who didn’t come back. Nolan Xavier Wells was 18 years old, a student-athlete from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, with a football future ahead of…
Home sales are cooling across parts of the country, but for millions of households, the barriers to homeownership have not moved. When the Associated Press reported that existing-home sales fell 2.4% in June while the national median sales price climbed to a record $440,600, it captured a housing market sending two signals simultaneously: activity is…
When language about an economic decision moves markets more than the decision itself, price discovery has migrated from the economy to the institution watching it. Bloomberg reported on July 8 that the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its June 16-17 FOMC meeting, confirming a hawkish tone under new Chair Kevin Warsh. A few officials…
France’s third major heatwave of 2026 is arriving before the calendar reaches August. The Connexion France reported on June 25 that Minister for ecological transition Monique Barbut told FranceInter that there is a strong probability that, starting the week after July 6, France will return to extreme heat until July 14 — the country’s national…