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Many people put a huge amount of work into this cover package. I hope it gets Sudan more of the attention it deserves

NEW: Chicago is facing a $982.4 million budget gap in 2025. The grim, but not unprecedented outlook will require the city to weigh new revenue & cuts. "There are sacrifices that will be made," Mayor Brandon Johnson said. With Alice Yin & A.D. Quig: chicagotribune.com/2024/08/29/chi…

This is so insane

The odds of your child getting kidnapped are about 1 in a million. The odds of a person born in 2021 dying in a traffic crash are about 1 in 93. American parents act like these stats are reversed. They're paranoid about the rare kidnapping but naive about the common drive.

Being a pedestrian or cycling should not be a death sentence Sarah Jennifer Homendy Andy Boenau espn.com/nhl/story/_/id…

Personal update: After 10 years as the Africa Editor of The Economist I am changing jobs to International Editor. The move is bittersweet. I'm stoked by the new job, but will also miss working with the best team in the business, covering the biggest story of our time.

"Betting on sprawl has been among the most predictable ways to make money in real estate for the past 80 years. Even in the rustiest Rust Belt cities, the exurban fringes experienced population growth & rising land values"

Great timing guys

Wild how a quadruple murder isn’t enough to get the head of the CTA to stand at a podium and take questions — especially right after his agency was parading new gun-detecting surveillance software on his trains

From the account of TENET Media, an entity named in the DOJ Russian influence documents.

sometimes i think about how, before he became a leading figure of white nationalism, richard spencer was on the internet liking photos of things with the taste level of wooden bowties

I'm going to delete this account fairly soon. But in the meantime...

JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )

Big city homicide trends for 2024 from an insightful article in The Economist by Daniel Knowles - about what makes Boston such an outlier from a safety perspective. Having lived there for almost 10 years before moving to Chicago, it definitely felt safer. Worth trying to emulate.

A notable Chicago demographic milestone: Per the 2023 American Community Survey, there are now 1,179,000 households in the city proper, exceeding the previous high of 1,157,000 in 1960. In other words, >100% of the population decline of the city is now explained by household size

New: Former Guardian media editor Jim Waterson launches London newsletter pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-gu…

Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way. I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: londoncentric.media