The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.

This monster storm has matched early forecasts for a season of major hurricanes.

What respondents tell pollsters doesn’t always make sense. But working out policy complexities isn’t the average voter’s job.

Material-cost inflation, anti-building rules, NIMBY attitudes, and barriers to innovation have created a housing-affordability crisis.

Across the country, communities are starkly divided, with African Americans living in one section and whites living in another, and a lot of people seem to be okay with that.

In today’s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.