Great @natecohn.bsky.social piece on what "affordability" really means to people in this moment, drawing on our most recent polling: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
28.01.2026 19:10 — 👍 58 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 5
Great @natecohn.bsky.social piece on what "affordability" really means to people in this moment, drawing on our most recent polling: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
28.01.2026 19:10 — 👍 58 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 5
"The second Trump coalition has unraveled."
via @natecohn.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Many months later, the Social Security Administration acknowledged in court that DOGE employees at the agency shared sensitive data in violation of security policies last spring, just as critics and privacy advocates feared at the time: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
21.01.2026 14:11 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Latest NYT analysis of video footage from the Renee Good shooting capture Ross firing the 2nd and 3rd shots at her after his body is visibly clear of the path of her vehicle.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Long before construction jobs became dominated by immigrant workers, the appeal of those jobs for American workers began to collapse. Only *then* did immigrants start to fill them.
From a *great* story by @rondakaysen.bsky.social + Rob Gebeloff: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
“He’s tended to turn the other cheek, and he’s reached a moment where he can’t.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
A long-awaited update of federal employment data shows crippling staff reductions in some federal agencies and offices:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Times' Visual Investigations team is the best at trying to find clarity when clarity is hard to come by.
Their view on the Minneapolis shooting yesterday: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Thank you!
05.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On balance, though, the MTA and Gov. Hochul have to be happy with the results of congestion pricing so far. They toll even raised more than they expected in its first year, about $550 million.
05.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Some people described a real sadness at forgoing car trips they felt they couldn’t replace with transit.
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We also asked readers to tell us about their experiences with congestion pricing. Many described quieter, less stressful streets.
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The resulting small improvements in speed aren’t necessarily visible to many people. But if you cross one of the chokepoints into Manhattan, you can likely see real change.
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Pretty consistently, the toll has deterred about 11 percent of vehicle trips we might have otherwise expected to see in Manhattan’s central business district. That amounts to some real breathing room on roads.
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We heard from many people who believed the benefits of the toll had tailed off since the spring. And we thought we might see that, too. But the number of car trips the toll has deterred has been remarkably stable.
05.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
That and other evidence from the policy, which is one year old today, in a big collab between @upshot.nytimes.com and the NYT Metro desk:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.
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Love these little @aliciaparlap.bsky.social graphics that illustrate the absurdist ways DOGE claimed it saved money, at the end of a year of trying to chase their accounting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Remarkably few of the immigrants arrested in big-city ICE operations have had violent criminal records, via Albert Sun:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NYT tracker here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
21.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
May need a taller chart soon.
21.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0A federal judge says the government has exceeded its authority in deploying the DC National Guard in the District to deter crime -- and by calling in the guard from states around the country to participate: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
20.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Republicans worried that steep Medicaid cuts in their big tax bill would shutter rural hospitals. To pass it, they included a $50B rural health care fund.
But a very different group of hospitals will bear the brunt of the law: large urban safety-net hospitals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
This Kirsten Soltis Anderson phrase will stick with me: swapping "McDonald’s Drive-Thru Guy for Golden Ballroom Guy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Smart Eliza Shapiro story about the six-figure economic precarity in New York that has helped fuel Mamdani's rise: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
07.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
There are now cement trucks entering the White House construction site, which is not what you'd expect for a project that hasn't been reviewed by anyone yet.
The White House has previously said no NCPC approvals are needed yet because they're just doing demo, not construction.
Good morning. We crunched 4.6GB of trade data to find out how much of U.S. imports are getting tariffed (quite a bit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
05.11.2025 15:33 — 👍 32 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Zohran Mamdani's focus on public transportation - and on affordability in general - paid off in a big way. Lots of fascinating insights in this map (free link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NJ election is the first real measure of Latino support since last year. A test of whether the Trump discontent in polls is re-shaping behavior heading into '26: will Sherrill come in closer to '21 or '24 in Hispanic bellwethers?
Here are cities to watch. Note '24 vs. prior.
The case picks back up a legal fight over conditioning funds to "sanctuary" cities and states that was never fully settled during the first Trump term:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...