
Binyamin Appelbaum
Lead Editorial Writer at The New York Times
I write about business and economics for @nytopinion. If you like these tweets, try my book, The Economists' Hour: https://t.co/cAfN0pLSLx
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum |David Wallace-Wells |Nicholas Kristof
June 16, 2025, 1:52 p.m. ETEditorial board memberNo one has ever campaigned on a platform calling for the United States to maintain a permanent underclass of illegal workers. America’s immigration mess isn’t the expression of a coherent ideology. We are stuck in this unpalatable reality because no one has mustered sufficient support for mass deportation or for legalization. President Trump presented his election as an end to the stalemate — a mandate for deportation.
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3 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Binyamin Appelbaum
People who say that the United States can't build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it's most difficult to build almost anything else. A $2.3 billion baseball stadium in the Bronx. A 70,000-seat football stadium in the middle of Los Angeles County. A basketball arena on the San Francisco waterfront.
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3 weeks ago |
econofact.org | Binyamin Appelbaum |Larry Edelman |Scott Horsley |Heather Long
EconoFact Chats regularly hosts a panel discussion with top economic journalists. Since the panel last met in March, the House passed the ‘big, beautiful budget bill,’ Moody’s has downgraded U.S. debt, universities face stiff funding challenges, and tariff policy continues to be volatile.
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3 weeks ago |
timesfreepress.com | Binyamin Appelbaum
People who say that the United States can't build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it's most difficult to build almost anything else. A $2.3 billion baseball stadium in the Bronx. A 70,000-seat football stadium in the middle of Los Angeles County. A basketball arena on the San Francisco waterfront.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum
Credit Credit... Christa Jarrold People who say that the United States can't build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it's most difficult to build almost anything else. A $2.3 billion baseball stadium in the Bronx. A 70,000-seat football stadium in the middle of Los Angeles County. A basketball arena on the San Francisco waterfront.
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RT @YAppelbaum: 1. This is the chart that—more than anything else—explains what’s gone wrong in the United States. Fifty years ago, one out…

The animating principle of the Democratic Party is that government can improve the lives of the American people. The housing crisis is manifest proof that government is failing to do so. https://t.co/qbGyaMGc4v

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