On Our Radar

A failed apartment-rehabilitation project by acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was a missed opportunity to preserve affordable housing in a rapidly gentrifying Des Moines neighborhood.

Each year, local governments spend nearly $100 billion to move headquarters and factories between states. It’s a wasteful exercise that requires a national solution.

Today’s young adults are less likely to own a home compared with baby boomers and Gen Xers at the same age.

Only one of America’s major political parties relies on stoking hatred and fear against those outside its coalition.

Undesign the Redline’ explores the many ways that redlining continues to impact communities of color.

Vermont still hasn’t.

Ballet dancers of color have long painted, dyed or covered point shoes in makeup to match their skin. Could this small barrier to inclusion finally be disappearing?

“Everyone wants a representative from their community to stand up for their issues,” Barreto said. For the House, he said, “It’s the entire point: They’re representatives.”

Sugarcane farmers can’t survive without large crop loans. For the Provosts, who say they suffered decades of discrimination, this could be the end of the line

While there are ways to improve the Community Reinvestment Act for the modern era, steps must be taken to ensure the law is not weakened in the process.

“There was nothing ‘happy’ about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for your use of this song for this purpose,” states the letter.

America’s public schools are still promoting devices with screens — even offering digital-only preschools. The rich are banning screens from class altogether.

An array of recent books have studied what happens when AI is entrusted with more serious problems than what to watch on Saturday night: how to hire the best employees; how to ensure robust public debate online; where to dispatch the police; whom to jail and whom to free.