All articles from Slow Boring
The dangerous war on Tylenol
Autism diagnoses have increased because diagnostic practices changed.
As federal housing rules retreat, cities rewrite their own
Trump’s rollback of fair-housing oversight meets a wave of local reinvention, from D.C. tenant law to Santa Barbara adaptive reuse.
The obscure coup that changed the world forever
In 1903, Serbia got a new king with a new anti-Habsburg foreign policy and the world got a Great War.
Tuesday discussion thread
Would you pay $75,000 for your child’s A.I. tutor?
The problems with transit have nothing to do with crime
Public transit is one of the safest ways to get around — it’s just too slow.
Undeterred by rhetoric, local news leaders adapt
Start-ups and traditional outlets test models for the future of journalism.
American students are getting dumber
It started before Covid, and it keeps getting worse.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Saturday discussion thread
What’s on your mind?
Visualizing Colorado’s voters
How one state’s electorate flipped, and a couple questions for you
The future of journalism
Also, why Colorado Democrats are so interesting and my Gen Z news diet
Thursday discussion thread
Some good tech news
MAGA’s scary clampdown on free speech
An unforgivable crime becomes a pretext.
The week in housing news
As affordability declines nationally, leaders across the country experiment locally.
What the research really says about immigration politics
The literature finds that “accommodating” restrictionists doesn’t work — but you should read it carefully.
Tuesday discussion post
The country’s economic strength increasingly depends on a privileged few.
There’s too many lumpers out there
A meta-ironic call for more specificity and less generalization
Cuts to health care threaten an industry that’s already facing a mass exodus
As post-Covid pressures meet policy changes, health-care workers eye the exit.
Could a shutdown finally end the filibuster?
An extremely conflicted take
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Questions for Halina
Saturday discussion thread
Take it away!
Inflation has cooled, anger about the cost of living hasn’t
The rising prices of everyday items will likely cost both sides of the aisle.
The half-drawn horse of abundance
Plus: Weezer, Harvard dorms, social mobility, and the first female president