The Forecast Everyone Was Confident About Before the June jobs report landed, the story practically wrote itself. The US, Canada, and Mexico were jointly hosting the 2026 World Cup, with 78 of the tournament’s 104 matches taking place on US soil. Bars in host cities were reportedly being drained by traveling fans — Boston’s watering […]
A Dollar a Gallon, and Rising At some U.S. stations this past spring, the price posted above the third button on the pump — premium — climbed past $5.40 a gallon for days at a stretch.The price displayed above that third button on the gas pump averaged more than $5.40 for several days this spring. […]
When a wave of presidential pardons went to people convicted of tampering with vehicle emissions systems, the framing was simple and relatable: these were just people “fixing their car,” swept up by an overzealous federal government. It’s a framing that taps into something a lot of car owners have wondered at some point — is […]
Every Fourth of July, one corner of Brooklyn turns into one of the strangest and most oddly captivating spectacles in American sports: grown adults competing to eat as many hot dogs and buns as humanly possible in ten minutes, in front of a roaring crowd, live on national television. At the center of it, for […]