The unemployment rate in Elkhart, Ind. went from 22% to 4%. Yet voters don't give Obama credit for a recovery. Why?

If you've never noticed the Great Tampon Shortage of 2022, you probably don't use them. If you have wondered about it, I have answers for you!

1/ I have been a journalist for 15+ years and was a Loeb finalist three times, for work including longform Atlantic pieces. But when I asked if I could work with an editor to write a feature piece for the magazine in the next year, I was told that was not possible. So I left.

Here sums up the past decade's gig economy: "Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all parties to increased surveillance."

I paid $3k over MSRP for my new car. The dealership also charged me $199 for VIN etching it didn’t actually do. So I looked into why car dealerships have the leverage to treat customers like this.

Video game company revenues are at an all-time high, surpassing box office receipts by some estimates. But workers say conditions are worsening, and are pushing for a union similar to the Hollywood guilds. My piece as E3 kicks off in LA:

What is the future of football as concussion worries grow? I visited two families, one black and one white, with teenage boys, to examine the sport’s widening racial divide:

That’s quite a caption. . . in a New York Times story

Are unions, like so many other things, becoming a privilege for the educated? Campaigns to organize blue-collar workers are failing, while ones to unionize white-collar workers are succeeding. My latest:

Say what you will about Prop. C, but after Seattle businesses defeated the head tax, saying that they wanted to solve homelessness but that a head tax wasn't the right solution, no new plan emerged, and more homeless are dying on the streets.