America’s incarceration rate is in decline(theatlantic.com)

249 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 451 comments

McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class (2020)(theatlantic.com)

21 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 7 comments

Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?(theatlantic.com)

218 points by explosion-s 3 years ago | 335 comments

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country(theatlantic.com)

10 points by andsoitis 28 days ago | 1 comments

Atlantic Ideas article by Henry Grabar arguing that crime is declining across US cities, even those with understaffed police departments.

The Dumbest Economic Policy in Modern History(theatlantic.com)

39 points by xnx 1 year ago | 2 comments

Cancel Zoning If we want to fix the housing-affordability crisis zoning must go(theatlantic.com)

29 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 38 comments

To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use(nytimes.com)

319 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 774 comments

New York Times article on Oregon state and Portland officials proposing to ban public drug use and roll back parts of the state's drug decriminalization law.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal(nytimes.com)

557 points by jbegley 1 month ago | 409 comments

New York Times article on a federal judge ruling that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal; the capture shows a captcha page.

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop(theintercept.com)

464 points by tdeck 22 hours ago | 126 comments

Intercept opinion piece on Eugene, Oregon police quoting a local news outlet a $2.5M fee for public records about an officer accused of misconduct.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill(techdirt.com)

525 points by Lariscus 2 years ago | 132 comments

Techdirt article reporting Oregon became the seventh state to pass a right-to-repair law, including a parts-pairing ban that Apple lobbied against.