Kate Wagner

5 days ago | thenation.com | Kate Wagner

Economy / June 2, 2025 One Solution to the Housing Crisis Is in Plain SightThe shortage can be addressed not through costly new development, but by reusing existing buildings. Ad Policy A former tobacco warehouse in South Boston that has been converted to apartments. ( Travis Dove / Getty) It’s become impossible to ignore the housing crisis’s elephant in the room: the link between real estate speculation and carbon emissions.

1 week ago | van-magazine.com | Kate Wagner

I’ve long accepted the fact that I am one of tens of thousands of people who suffer from Wagner derangement syndrome. Many people listen to or watch the works of Wagner, but only an errant few become lifers. Given the sheer baggage of Wagner and the irksome coincidence of our shared surname, this is, of course, devastating.

2 weeks ago | elnormal.si | Kate Wagner

Nedvomno živimo v enem izmed najbolj neumnih obdobij v zgodovini človeštva; in hkrati, žal, tudi v enem izmed najbolj bolečih. To, kar se trenutno dogaja v moji državi, bi lahko opisala le kot občutek, da sem boksarska vreča – in vsakodnevne novice tiste, ki nosijo boksarske rokavice. Vsak dan se sprašujem: ali naj, preden se sesuje trg, poskusim kupiti nepremičnino, čeprav nimam niti za aro? Ali pa naj raje po hitrem postopku pobegnem iz te države? Preden me recimo zaprejo zaradi mojih radikaln...

1 month ago | defector.com | Kate Wagner

In April, after months of tech-dipshit palace intrigue, photos of Mark Zuckerberg’s long-rumored D.C. mansion finally spread their way through social media. Because Zuckerberg is an immensely disliked figure for democracy-destroying and culture-annihilating reasons, mass architectural criticism was equally swift. To social media users, the house looked like everything from a dorm at a mid-sized state college to, well, a McMansion—which it is, in spirit.

1 month ago | thenation.com | Kate Wagner

World / April 28, 2025 Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s WorldviewHis policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart. Ad Policy The future president in Trump Tower circa 1987. (Getty) Architecture may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump.