A stripe of paint on the street isn’t enough to keep bicyclists safe from drivers, a new study confirms. The study, published this month in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, analyzed the way drivers interact with cyclists on various
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We’ve got a barn-burner for you today, but first, let’s look back at where we are in our first round matchups: We’ve closed the polls on some earlier matchups, with Houston narrowly defeating Boston, Pittsburgh also squeaking by Portland, and
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A Progressive Divide Over Housing I’ll be visiting three cities this week and next that I write about in Generation Priced Out: Cambridge, NYC and Washington DC.  Each offers lessons for activists in other cities. Cambridge Cambridge “progressives” are sharply
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The 21,000-member NewsGuild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), is a rarity in organized labor. It’s one of the few national unions that lets all members vote for its top officers, instead of choosing them at a
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Momentum for Infill Housing, Transit, Parking Bans I knew before visiting Boulder, Denver, Minneapolis and St. Paul last week of their strategies for expanding affordable housing. But I came away feeling that a lot more progress is being made than
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Driving is so hard-wired into American culture, life and institutions, that it’s hard to account for all the ways it is subsidized, preferenced or otherwise favored. But Greg Shill, a law professor at University of Iowa, attempted it anyway. In
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Needed: A Transformative Housing Platform What does it mean for Democratic presidential candidates to strongly back housing? Health care advocates push “Medicare for All,”  enviros a “Green New Deal,” but housing lacks a consensus action plan. Here’s a suggestion: Democratic
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