Binyamin Appelbaum

1 week 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.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum

The president thinks he can return America to manufacturing glory - but the cycles of economic history are hard to break. Credit... Photo illustration by Derek Brahney Historians make their names by persuading people to see patterns in the chaos. In the late 1970s, the French historian Fernand Braudel thought that one of those patterns was about to repeat. Braudel was a student of the slow-moving currents that shape events.

1 month ago | pressdemocrat.com | Binyamin Appelbaum

ST. GEORGE, UtahThe big industry in this pretty city in southwestern Utah is building and selling homes, and business is so good that St. George is running out of land. Set beneath the red bluffs of the Colorado River plateau and blessed with sunshine more than 300 days a year, St. George has been one of the fastest-growing communities in the United States over the past quarter-century. Like many cities in the Mountain West, St. George is an island of private property in a sea of public land.

1 month ago | sltrib.com | Binyamin Appelbaum

St. George * The big industry in this pretty city in southwestern Utah is building and selling homes, and business is so good that St. George is running out of land. Set beneath the red bluffs of the Colorado River plateau and blessed with sunshine more than 300 days a year, St. George has been one of the fastest-growing communities in the United States over the past quarter-century. Like many cities in the Mountain West, St. George is an island of private property in a sea of public land.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum

The government can do better by making two changes. First, the federal government should lease land rather than sell it. A 2024 task force co-chaired by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, a Republican, proposed leasing federal land for housing development because federal lands are not subject to local zoning laws and other forms of municipal obstructionism. "It would be a game changer," said Steve Waldrip, the governor's top adviser on housing.