Stuck

Three new books propose market solutions to problems that require government intervention. We’ve been here before. It didn’t end well.

The Puritan origins of modern ideas about migration.

Once a nation of movers, the US has lost its “culture of mobility,” a new book argues. That’s been a disaster for housing affordability and economic progress.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.