Claire Cain Miller

“[T]he 24 states [banning] abortion fare worse on a broad range of outcomes than states where abortion will probably remain legal, including child and maternal mortality, teenage birthrates and the share of women and children who are uninsured.” nytimes.com/2022/07/28/ups…

Toronto’s New Flag

I’m a big fan of Kenzie Ryder’s concept.

Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals

Over the years, the authority has kept pushing back the timeline for replacing signals. In 1997, officials said that every line would be computerized by this year. By 2005, they had pushed the deadline to 2045, and now even that target seems unrealistic.

London has moved more quickly on signals because officials completed the work… See more →

Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking

While assessing the significance of Flynn’s and Sessions’s meetings with Kislyak, an ambassador, consider this:

The label ‘intelligence official’ is not always cleanly applied in Russia, where ex-spies, oligarchs and government officials often report back to the intelligence services and elsewhere in the Kremlin.

What Is Race?

A good crash course on race from Whit Taylor.

Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now

I’ll probably have this… See more →

A nice roundup of policy proposals to help the increasing share of the workforce being displaced by automation. nytimes.com/2017/03/07/ups…

I’m no misogynist, but I’ve been responsible for some of the “thousand tiny paper cuts” of “Technology’s Man Problem” nytimes.com/2014/04/06/tec…