This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although millions of homeowners have recovered financially and resumed their mortgage payments, concerning trends in the housing market prevail. As of November 2020, 3.7 million homeowners who had entered forbearance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America is now firmly in the grips of what many are calling the “third wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each day, new COVID-19 cases nationwide routinely approach or exceed 200,000, and associated…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Disagreements about how to tackle the climate crisis abound, but in 2020, it seemed much of the world finally reached consensus about at least one thing: getting to net-zero by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I’m going to try to make sense of this tumultuous year, starting with three trends from the past 12 months that I see as key to the immediate future of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In fewer than 30 days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) national eviction moratorium will expire. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has already extended the moratorium on federally backed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon will donate $690,000 ($1 million Australian) in assistance to wildfire recovery after Australia’s devastating bushfires. Twenty-eight people and more than one billion animals have died in the fires, which have burned…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the bleak winter days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, a town in shock after losing 20 children and six adults faced down intrusive reporters, political…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report demonstrates a stalled jobs recovery following the deep and rapid economic decline brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, the NFIP is effectively bankrupt. It owes the U.S. Treasury nearly $25 billion – money it borrowed from federal taxpayers to cover its obligations in Sandy, Katrina (2005), and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize the possession of all drugs on Nov. 3, 2020. Measure 110, a ballot initiative funded by the Drug Policy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We know that the hunger crisis is real. We know that it happens in poverty-stricken communities in third-world countries. We also know that it happens in our own backyards. You…