Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

"communities' effective property tax rates decline as apartments' share of the housing stock rises...These findings are contrary to the set of assumptions...used to justify many of today's land-use restrictions...." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My least libertarian take is government should provide more guardrails to protect people from accidentally nuking their lives financially (studies routinely show people who sign up for payday loans, auto loans, etc straight up do not understand the math of what they sign up for)

The way people in this city use their plastic Halloween skeletons all year round brings me great joy

39% of Americans aren't even renters!

Rogers Park’s 89-year-old bike shop has a popular e-bike and scooter repair department thanks to an Amish mechanic. David Ross has over 10 years of experience working on e-bikes & e-scooters despite only limited use of technology in his Amish community. buff.ly/3J2fC28

Munition dropped right through the World Central Kitchen logo

A broader thought on the convoy attack. World Central Kitchen does remarkable, courageous work, in Gaza and elsewhere. But in Gaza it is part of a jerry-built and inadequate solution to a problem that only exists because powerful governments are uninterested in addressing its root cause.

There is a straightforward way to get sufficient aid into Gaza: for the wealthy state which controls all but one of Gaza's land-border crossings, and which is an occupying power in at least parts of the enclave, to take responsibility for delivering it.

The humanitarian funding situation for #Sudan, and for the regional refugee response, is dire. And a shortfall in funding from the US, routinely the largest donor, is part of the issue. USAID has not announced any FY24 HA funding yet; State has announced just $47M.

I went to Cairo, Illinois, the capital of the fastest-shrinking county in America, and wrote about why in the future, much larger parts of America are likely to lose population: economist.com/briefing/2024/…

I really am almost never on this website any more. Find me on BlueSky (same username) and also on Substack (Notes on Carmageddon), where I am going to start sending out a newsletter with links to my latest stories and some observations

Another happy London Centric reader - subscribe pre-launch for 25% off! londoncentric.media First proper edition tomorrow with more on the Standard.

NEW from me in Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/story/jon…

Such a concise and comprehensive look at the ebbing of the pandemic-era homicide surge from Daniel Knowles in The Economist, with reporting from Baltimore. Gift link in replies.