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A poem appeared anonymously 201 years ago this month in a newspaper in Troy, New York, telling of a jolly St. Nicholas with twinkling eyes, dimpled...
A regulatory U-turn is coming in Washington, the third in less than a decade. President-elect Donald Trump’s deregulatory bent will clearly be a big...
The $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit in the fiscal year that ended in September was the third biggest ever in dollar terms, trailing only the...
The safest place in America, subject to some qualifiers that I’ll get to, lies just across the Potomac River from the high-crime District of...
Here’s something that would have seemed pretty much inconceivable two years ago: According to Zillow, home prices have now risen more in New York...
The last US gross domestic product numbers to be released before the election, out last week, put inflation-adjusted growth since Joe Biden took...
Been with the same employer for 10 years or more? That doesn’t exactly make you a rarity in the US, where 30.2% of employed wage and salary workers...
Are you better off than you were four years ago? The simplest answer to the classic presidential-election-year question appears to be that yes, most...
Economic growth has been markedly stronger during Joe Biden’s presidency than it was during Donald Trump’s, with real gross domestic product...
The US Census Bureau recently released 2023 median income data, and as it has almost every year since 2005, 1 Loudoun County, Virginia, topped the...
Included in this week’s gross domestic product release were revisions of the past five years of GDP and related data. They make Joe Biden’s...
After increasing in 2020 and 2021, violent crime as reported to and by police has been declining in the US. But does that truly mean violent crime —...
New York City is not as safe as it was before the pandemic and protests of 2020. The number of New Yorkers killed in homicides rose 59% from 2019 to...
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The Major Cities Chiefs Association reported recently that, in the 69 large US cities and counties from which it received data, violent crime was down...
The sudden rise of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, and her choice of Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as...
In March 2021, two months after she and President Joe Biden took office, Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned the task of addressing the “root...
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Former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago last week has become...
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It has been a weird four years for California’s technology sector. It boomed early in the Covid-19 pandemic as people in the US and around the world...
William McKinley is an example of somebody who did an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice. His biggest booster for most of the...
Every time I pass by the new railroad bridge rising 50 feet above the Hackensack River in the New Jersey Meadowlands, which is visible from both...
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In March 2020, President Donald Trump’s administration sealed US borders in what was billed as a measure to fight the spread of Covid-19. The...
The first-quarter US crime statistics released last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation were a doozy, in a good way. Every single main crime...
As the monthly nonfarm payroll employment numbers repeatedly blew past economists’ forecasts over the past couple of years, one small sector in...
After the start of the Covid-19 pandemic brought fear and lockdowns in early 2020, many European countries acted quickly to preserve jobs. In Germany,...
How big is the gig economy, and how fast is it growing? The answers, according to official US employment statistics, are (1) not very and (2) it...
The percentage of Americans who move each year keeps falling, with a lowest-on-record 7.8% of US residents reporting to the Census Bureau in spring...
What is flexible office space for? In the heyday of WeWork Inc., the answer seemed to be a big party. WeWork’s high-design, amenity-filled urban...
The first two decades of the 21st century saw a revival of culinary interest in iceberg lettuce, an American staple that had lost out to other...
As president, Donald Trump was a serial failure when it came to passing infrastructure legislation, with repeated “Infrastructure Weeks” that came...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a gigantic conglomerate that owns a bunch of boring businesses outright and has big stakes in a few arguably less-boring...
About a year and a half ago, I became one of Those People who track how many steps they walk each day. I know there’s nothing magical about the...
New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted again this week to allow rent increases on rent-stabilized apartments. Or did it? The board tentatively...
The number of burglaries in the US fell 9.8% last year, according to the quarterly crime report released last month by the Federal Bureau of...
In 2007, 4,316,233 babies were born in the US, just beating out the previous record of 4.3 million set at the peak of the baby boom in 1957 —...
The number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters, aka homicides — the most reliably measured crimes as well as the most serious — fell in New...
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Our understanding of the US labor market is based to a remarkable extent on a few questions asked each month as part of the Current Population Survey,...
It’s a common sight at Manhattan intersections: An impatient or oblivious pedestrian edges a step or two onto a busy avenue well before the light...
A pleasant way to while away a few minutes (or hours if you’re really into it) is to visit the American Viticultural Area Map Explorer hosted by the...
The number of people who are apprehended by US Border Patrol agents or voluntarily surrender to them at or near the border with Mexico has skyrocketed...
Three years and 10 months after New York City began shutting down in the face of Covid-19, nonfarm 1 payroll employment in the city finally surpassed...
It has now been four years since the US job market went into an unprecedented freefall because of the Covid-19 pandemic. With that anniversary and the...
For most of human history (and probably prehistory), higher male status was linked to having more children. This relationship between positive status...