Anyone who’s been in a dumb recurring fight knows that the entire problem could be cleared up if everyone could just agree on exactly what was said or done. But you can’t, so you end up stuck in a cycle of relitigation. Housing-policy discussions are like that. They descend into crushing bickering…

So you’re sitting around with a group of friends talking, the conversation skipping cheerfully from one topic to another, turning eventually, somehow, to a discussion of the best and worst public restrooms you’ve each encountered. Your friend Jackie says that she is terrified of the bathrooms at the…

Illustration: Nicolás Ortega This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. For a minute there, things looked grim for New York City landlords. The pandemic caused an exodus of such proportions that building owners were…

The New York Times’ 1619 Project entered a new phase of historical assessment when the paper published a scathing criticism by five well-known historians of the American Revolution and Civil War eras. The group included previous critics James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes,…

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Nobody shares all their private complaints with an audience, but how do we know how much to share and with whom? Certainly, in the name of various kinds of shared commitments, it seems best to hash out your differences in private: a team of magazine editors need not disclose every editorial dispute…

During the past two years, fake news has been a frequent topic of real news, with articles considering the role of social media in spreading fake news, the advent of fake videos and the role these play in the political process. Something less well-known, though, is that fake news has also become a…

As digital cameras have become the norm in 21st century movies and production work and more and more films and clients want their projects shot in 4K resolution, RED cameras have become a staple on film sets around the world. As a company, it could be argued that RED was essentially ahead of its…

Senator Bernie Sanders with his wife, Jane, in Las Vegas. Economists say his proposals could substantially raise federal spending.Credit...Isaac Brekken for The New York Times WASHINGTON — With his expansive plans to increase the size and role of government, Senator Bernie Sanders has provoked a…

55 Savushkina Street, the last known home of the Internet Research Agency.Credit...James Hill for The New York Times The Tech & Design Issue From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life…

How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) Kim-Mai Cutler 8:55 PM PDT · April 14, 2014 The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result…

The "Do bets reveal beliefs?" discussion continues. This is very interesting to me, since in finance experiments, you often depend on bets accurately revealing beliefs. But lost in the mayhem of the debate is a second question: Do beliefs contain useful information in the first place? In an econ…

Those who suffer from pre-existing conditions may know more about the future of their own health care than even insurers do Jupiterimages/Thinkstock. There are currently tens of millions of Americans without health insurance. Some can’t afford coverage at going rates. But as recently as 2009, one in…

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You’ll read it here, see also various (mostly weak) responses in the comments to Alex’s original post. Most of you, including Krugman, are missing Alex’s point. The issue is not that Krugman changed his mind (I’ve done that plenty, Alex too). The issue is that Krugman a) regularly demonizes his…

Paul Krugman (Jan 1, 2012): People who get their economic analysis from the likes of the Heritage Foundation have been waiting ever since President Obama took office for budget deficits to send interest rates soaring. Any day now! …while debt can be a problem, the way our politicians and pundits…

The economist equivalent of a brawl is going on between Paul Krugman and the guys at Marginal Revolution. I'm not going to pile into the dispute directly--I prefer both the style and substance of Marginal Revolution, but am well aware that Paul Krugman has forgotten more economics than I will ever…

As a small test, Zingales looked at the 150 most-downloaded papers that had been done on executive pay. He found that papers supporting high pay for top executives were 55 percent more likely to be published in prestigious economic journals. They were also much more likely to be cited in other…