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Where can Americans afford to live solo in 2025? Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows rent is soaring in several southern cities

I put together our third annual Carrie Bradshaw index, measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in America's 100 biggest cities, for @economist.com
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And another! She’s unbelievable

As popularity and revenue soars, how much longer can the NBA - which effectively controls the W - hold their line that it is still losing money? 🤔

Women’s pro-ballers want more cash The popularity of the WNBA is soaring

With about a month to go until a salary renegotiation deadline on October 31st, I looked at why America's women basketball players are scandalously underpaid, for @economist.com
www.economist.com/united-state...

Who knew the Lib Dems were the chilled ones about tax returns! But overall that's a striking consensus, and a potentially big problem brewing for Farage

Boris Johnson yet to appear on GB News 10 months after being signed up as a presenter The former PM, working on his memoirs, has still not hosted a programme for the right-leaning channel – and his publisher awaits book slated for a 2016 release

Now two years after this was announced and (by my reckoning at least) still no sign? 🤔 Curieux
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Lovely vignette on the making of Gone With The Wind (from Bruce Chadwick’s Reel Civil War)

Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw, TV’s exasperating, enduring heroine She made viewers cross. But “Sex and the City” was unlike anything that had come before

“My characters exist,” snapped Candace Bushnell at her critics. “Go to enough parties, and you’ll meet all of them.”
First appearing on TV in 1998, I wrote about the (perhaps slightly overdue) end of her Sex and the City universe last week, for @economist.com
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

What’s your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x? Young people, in particular, want audiobooks, podcasts and videos to go faster

Our polling with YouGov has found nearly a third of under-30s listen to audio sped up (compared to 8% of those 45+). A sign of brain-frazzling madness, or an ingenious time-saver? I had a closer look for @economist.com
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

The Gospel of Candace Owens The Daily Wire host is waging a far-right fight for the soul of pop culture.

"Owens met Farmer at the London event where she made the Hitler remarks... Seventeen days after meeting Owens, Farmer proposed over the phone. Seven months later, in August, 2019, the pair married, at Trump Winery"- quite the nugget
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A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch was offered a security briefing on this earlier this year she decided that it wasn't important enough for her to bother turning up

There's a lot of 'the spendthrift PLP versus the Iron Downing Street' about, which ignores that the PLP accepted a deferment of scrapping the two child limit and voted to means-test winter fuel.

Shout out to Catherine Corless, independent local historian. who has made a difference.

Women too emotional for politics, etc etc

🚨 BREAKING: Zia Yusuf has resigned as Chairman of Reform UK, saying “I no longer believe working to get a Reform government is a good use of my time.”

Opinion | Why Women Are Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears

Another excellent column by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social, this one about the amazing play John Proctor is the Villain: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

Bucharest pressed: Ukraine’s election effect | The Intelligence from The Economist

Also spoke to The Intelligence, our daily podcast, about it this morning. Have a listen! From 18:30
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The WNBA will soon be the most valuable league in women’s sport Already wildly popular, women’s basketball still has room to grow

"It's not a magic trick to get people to watch women's sports", one analyst told me. As the new WNBA season starts tonight, I wrote for @economist.com about how women's basketball exploded in America
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

One lesson of the local elections is that it's time to take Reform seriously, not just as a political movement but as a possible party of government.

So I spent a few days digging into their economic plans—and found hair-raising, Truss-adjacent stuff.

www.economist.com/britain/202...

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows Australia’s housing is in crisis In most big cities, the average worker struggles to afford their own place

Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, in an election dominated by the cost of living crisis - housing in particular.

I put together the latest version of our "Carrie Bradshaw index", measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in six major Australian cities 👇
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

The problem with the theory that FPTP keeps fringe parties out is that it does until it doesn't, at which point it creates a massive ratchet effect. Having FPTP and a successful radical right party is essentially a gamble of sorts.

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows Australia’s housing is in crisis In most big cities, the average worker struggles to afford their own place

Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, in an election dominated by the cost of living crisis - housing in particular.

I put together the latest version of our "Carrie Bradshaw index", measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in six major Australian cities 👇
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

With American credibility in doubt, minds go back to Saigon in 1975 A look at the way The Economist covered the end of the Vietnam war

This isn’t the first time America’s credibility as an ally has been questioned.

50 years ago today Saigon fell, the Vietnam war ended and American pride took a big hit.

My piece looks at The Economist’s coverage from April 1975. Much of it will sound familiar. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Chart showing that there is a correlation between the share of housework and childcare men do, and the birth rate of a country. The US and Frace being above the line, ie having a higher birth rate than the simple correlation would suggest (given the share of men's contribution to chores, their birth rate should be lower).

Birth bonus. Sigh.

The EU must reinvent itself... or die World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.

So. In the spirit of being fair, I have now read Nick Clegg‘s Essay about the Future of Europe - and Britain‘s Part in it. I have also done my best to ignore who wrote it, and focus on the arguments in it. A few thoughts
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Daniel Bice Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog team.

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

The headline says “Only 1361 days to go” The picture in black and white with a cream background is of a badly injured bald eagle. Its legs are in bandages with strapping around its neck and on its head. Some of its feathers are lying on the ground, detached painfully from its body.

The cover of this week’s Economist.