.J.P., your friend and mine, needs support for his gender affirming care this year. link to donate and share⚡️: gofundme.com/f/help-jp-over…

Stunning story by Jake Bittle in grist about a busted California oil town betting on carbon capture to save itself. “Kern County is attempting something altogether different by trying to build a new boom industry out of the ashes of an old one” grist.org/energy/taft-ca…

References to David Foster Wallace’s INFINITE JEST in Luca Guadagnino’s CHALLENGERS🧵

Nobody asked for it, but here is my deep dive into the Midwest’s campaign to eat more carp: chicago.eater.com/2024/5/17/2415…

This is a great story from Xuandi Wang 王炫迪. Really nice to get a follow-up on this kind of initiative, which is promoted with all kinds of things -- but rarely gets the follow-through to ask "Does asking people to eat invasive species actually work?" chicago.eater.com/2024/5/17/2415…

#Colombia has received four times more #Venezuelans than the United States. But that small and relatively poor South American country offered the #migrants paths to formal employment, health care, education and citizenship. I went to see the integration. wbez.org/immigration/ch…

From Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau: "...[Obama] wanted this whole thing about how there's a lot of Democratic cities that have zoning laws and I was like we're not writing 'zoning laws' in the speech."

BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…

beautiful journalism

Drumroll please...🥁 Best of the South Side (BoSS) 2024 is HERE! This reimagined special issue features narrative writing from some of our faves, poetry by E'mon Lauren, and of course the Bests you know and love with a twist! We are so back 🎉 issuu.com/southsideweekl…

You were promised econ studies on the effects of immigration on house prices. So let's deliver: An important new study finds that more robust enforcement of immigration laws reduces the construction workforce, which has led to higher house prices. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes checked off.

“HALL’S PREFERRED BEVERAGE FOR FACE PLUNGING” I’m rolling

I dislike Andrea Long Chu’s style of review very much but she pinpoints the stupidity and performance of many diasporic writers who get away with talking about their homeland, mother language, and ancestors like magical primitives because a white audience doesn’t know better

a new pope from chicago illionois? sufjan better get back in the studio

I wrote about the politics of city investment, the flawed logic driving national grocery chains, and the grassroots models quietly redefining food access. nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…

I love how every Mamdani’s proposal is a field day for microeconomics students lol. This one speaks to the question about economic rent and that famous study about how medallion scarcity drove up fares in NYC