Three Theories for Why You Have No Time
COMMENTARY | Better technology means higher expectations, and higher expectations create more work.
Why the 21st-Century Economy Prizes Overwork
The digital age has liberated the tools of productivity from the office, and chained workers to their computers.
The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense
COMMENTARY | If you want to understand how meritocracy acts as a cover for inequality, look no further than our broken understanding of gratuity.
The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
COMMENTARY | As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.
Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking?
After a post-recession boomlet, the New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago areas are all seeing their population decline.
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.
Why Flying Cars Are an Impossible Dream
The air taxi is the Godot of technology: always on its way, never here.
A Different Kind of Housing Crisis
ANALYSIS | Many of the Trump administration’s most famous policies are impediments to affordable construction.
What’s Really Happening to Retail?
Manhattan’s shuttered storefronts tell a larger American story: Only Amazon-proof businesses can now survive in brick and mortar.
What Do New York's Empty Storefronts Say About the Future of Cities?
A look at how Manhattan became a rich ghost town.
Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why?
Mass Shootings in America Are Spreading Like a Disease
If it seems like the shootings are becoming more frequent, it might be because mass murder can catch on like an epidemic.
Why Nerds and Nurses Are Taking Over the U.S. Economy
A blockbuster report from government economists forecasts the workforce of 2026—a world of robot cashiers, well-paid math nerds, and so (so, so, so) many healthcare workers.
Why So Many Americans Are Saying Goodbye to Cities
What’s happening to New York City is a microcosm of what’s happening around the country—the hollowing out of the U.S. city.
The Feedback Loop That Will Make America's Richest Cities Even Richer
Certain multisyllabic phrases—geographic sorting, economic agglomeration, cumulative advantage—are all fancy ways of saying smart young people move toward jobs and density.
The Richest Cities for Young People: 1980 vs. Today
Five of the ten richest cities for young Boomers have since seen median wages for young people fall by at least 15 percent.
The Miracle of Minneapolis
No other place mixes affordability, opportunity, and wealth so well. What’s its secret?
Where to Move If You Want a Job, More Money, or Lots of Single People
Digging through the new Census tool on which large cities are the nation's leaders in singles, earnings, and unemployment for younger Americans.
Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work
The paradox of the American Dream: The best cities to get ahead are often the most expensive places to live, and the most affordable places to live can be the worst cities to get ahead.
Why Americans Can't Afford to Live in Liberal Cities
Blue America has a problem: Even after adjusting for income, left-leaning metros tend to have worse income inequality and less affordable housing.
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