Henry Grabar

1 week ago | slate.com | Henry Grabar

Metropolis Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What is the point of the Donald Trump Tariff Show? No one seems to know, not least the man himself. Are we trying to raise a bunch of new tax revenue? Reshore manufacturing? Are tariffs simply a pretense to negotiate better trade deals? Or must we treat the spiritual malaise that comes from dependence on an endless stream of disposable consumer goods?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Henry Grabar

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What is the point of the Donald Trump Tariff Show? No one seems to know, not least the man himself. Are we trying to raise a bunch of new tax revenue? Reshore manufacturing? Are tariffs simply a pretense to negotiate better trade deals? Or must we treat the spiritual malaise that comes from dependence on an endless stream of disposable consumer goods?

1 week ago | slate.com | Henry Grabar

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A transportation nightmare is looming over Chicago, where a $730 million hole in the regional mass transit budget could force the city to cut bus and train service nearly in half. That could shutter some train stations and leave the country’s third-largest city with fewer bus routes than Madison, Wisconsin.

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Henry Grabar

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Donald Trump has set in motion an ambitious housing plan that promises to double the rate of homebuilding, finance affordable housing, and develop new construction technology. In Canada, that is.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Henry Grabar

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A city is seeking bids to operate a skating rink. It’s a premise as pedestrian as a Parks and Recreation episode, news that might not even garner a press release, let alone a newspaper story, in a normal city under normal circumstances.