Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
How to actually get to know your neighbors
As a 30-something who works remotely, I’ve gone days without speaking to another human. And after living in the same apartment complex for four years, I’m ashamed to admit I don’t know a single one of my neighbors. My experience isn’t totally aligned with the rest of the country. A 2025 Pew Research report found […]
How Trump’s son-in-law sparked a revolt in Albania
The Trump family has had Albanians up in arms for over a month now, as anger over a luxury real estate development has grown into a protest movement against government corruption and what they see as a political system that protects the corrupt over its citizens. Many observers describe the demonstrations as Albania’s largest civic […]
An economist makes the case for Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze
As America’s housing crisis deepens, policymakers are increasingly turning to an old idea for improving affordability: making large rent increases illegal. In recent years. Oregon, Washington, and California have enacted statewide rent controls. In 2024, the Biden administration floated a nationwide cap on rent increases for large buildings. And last month, New York’s Rent Guidelines […]
Is Trump’s World Cup meddling a true scandal, or standard FIFA corruption?
After a tumultuous weekend for World Cup fans, US striker Folarin Balogun will play in the game against Belgium on Monday night. Maybe that doesn’t sound at all surprising, perhaps because you only learned the name Folarin Balogun today, when you heard that President Donald Trump was involved in all of this in some capacity. […]
Iran’s new supreme leader is a no-show at his father’s funeral. Where is he?
For 36 years, the question of who ultimately ruled Iran had one answer: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has an elected president and legislature, that power is subordinate to the religious supreme leader, who has the last say over all foreign and domestic policies and is the commander in chief of Iran’s conventional […]