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As many readers noted, Democrats moving to red states could tilt future elections blue.

Who knew selling a house could be such a zen activity?

The fight against conspiratorial thinking among students can’t be won with some required courses and simply reaffirming that anti-Semitism is wrong and Elvis is dead, writes Elizabeth Stice.

Last modified on Sun 16 May 2021 10.10 EDT London is changing, and so is the south of England. Whether recent predictions of a lasting drop in the capital’s population and emptied-out office districts will come true is still unclear. But something has definitely been happening, for the best part of a year: thanks to Covid and its disruptions, a sizeable number of people are deciding to leave the city and head elsewhere, chasing space, greenery – and, in many cases, the company of like...

Share this: The graph compares population growth in large metro counties to small metros and nonmetro counties. Large metro counties include the core and suburban counties of metros of 1 million or more and the central counties of metros with 250,000 to 1 million. (Robert Cushing using Census population estimates) The overwhelming population growth story of the past 50 years has been the increasing concentration of people in central cities and their suburbs. At the same time, growth has slowed ...

Editor-in-Chief Calum Drysdale asks how we can avoid a replay of what happened in the US here in Britain

Editor-in-Chief Calum Drysdale asks how we can avoid a replay of what happened in the US here in Britain

It Took Decades for America to Become This Divided [Governing] Jan. 5—The outcome in Tuesday’s Senate runoffs in Georgia may end up being close, but voting among various subgroups won’t be. As was the case in November, there will be stark splits along racial, gender and geographic lines. College-educated residents of Atlanta and its major suburbs will vote in clear contrast to the results in rural areas. By now, this is such a familiar scenario that it almost doesn’t seem worth commenti...

Nashville, Rockford, and the new age of paranoia | Will Bunch Newsletter Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer I was going to proclaim that, hey we made it all the way through 2020! — but then I remembered that when you open this email there’ll still be about 60 hours left in this annus horribilis, and God only knows how much more American carnage is left. Sign up to receive this newsletter weekly at inquirer.com/bunch, because in 2021 I promise we’re going to need each ot...

Bewildering. the ig sort of chides comey for kind of not going through channels in raising the concerns about, you know, oval office meeting in which the president asked him to shut down the michael flynn investigation. and, you know, i sort of scratch my head and say exactly what channel is he supposed to have gone through. is he supposed to have complained to the attorney general? well, the attorney general was just recused. is he supposed to complain to the deputy attorney general, the deputy...