Justin Fox

The motor vehicles sold in the US have been getting bigger and heavier, with large pickup trucks leading the way. Large pickups also lead the way in killing others on the road — seven of the 10 (and 10 of the 13) 2023 model-year vehicles with the highest other-driver death rates were large or very large pickups, according to statistics released last week by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Young college graduates have long had lower unemployment rates than Americans of the same ages without college degrees, which is what you might expect: College graduates can get jobs that require degrees, and they can get jobs that don’t. Non-graduates can choose from only the latter.

Young college graduates have long had lower unemployment rates than Americans of the same ages without college degrees, which is what you might

US existing home sales fell a little in July, according to data released last week by the National Association of Realtors. But what really stands out when one looks at the numbers is how little they’ve changed over the past three years. This July, homes were selling at an annual pace of 4.06 million. In July 2023, it was 4.08 million.

An key obstacle is that U.S. automakers apparently can’t make money on anything but large vehicles.

The motor vehicles sold in the U.S. have been getting bigger and heavier, with large pickup trucks leading the way. Large pickups also lead the way in killing others on the road — seven of the 10 (and 10 of the 13) 2023 model-year vehicles with the highest other-driver death rates were large or very large pickups, according to statistics released........

“Every single number is the lowest number in recorded history,” President Donald Trump said while unveiling the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2025 US crime report last week. It may not be surprising to learn that this was false: Despite falling sharply in 2025, the population-adjusted rate of aggravated assaults — one of the four main violent crimes tracked by the FBI — was still higher than in the early 2010s. So was the rate of rapes, albeit mainly because of definitional changes made in 2

Remember the Iranian nuclear threat? It’s been growing.

A willingness to tear things up and start over is what makes one of the world’s iconic neighborhoods great.

Wondering why so many things seem to have been going wrong this year, from contaminated lettuce to measles outbreaks to air-traffic-control-related flight cancellations? The reduction in federal government capacity caused by the Trump administration’s job cutbacks may be a factor.