Slow Boring — Archive

Trump’s rollback of fair-housing oversight meets a wave of local reinvention, from D.C. tenant law to Santa Barbara adaptive reuse.

In 1903, Serbia got a new king with a new anti-Habsburg foreign policy and the world got a Great War.

Would you pay $75,000 for your child’s A.I. tutor?

Public transit is one of the safest ways to get around — it’s just too slow.

Start-ups and traditional outlets test models for the future of journalism.

It started before Covid, and it keeps getting worse.

How one state’s electorate flipped, and a couple questions for you

Also, why Colorado Democrats are so interesting and my Gen Z news diet

Some good tech news

An unforgivable crime becomes a pretext.

As affordability declines nationally, leaders across the country experiment locally.

The literature finds that “accommodating” restrictionists doesn’t work — but you should read it carefully.

The country’s economic strength increasingly depends on a privileged few.