| Newly released 2020 Census data give us a better sense of where Americans think the best places to live are. Cities such as Phoenix, Dallas, Houston and Las Vegas continue to be popular, maintaining the strong population growth that's defined them for the last half-century. Others, such as Buffalo and Cincinnati, have reversed decades-long declines in population, leading to proud claims of urban revival. Still more, such as Detroit and St. Louis, continued to lose people as they have for the last 70 years. What's also clear from the data, though, is that population growth may no longer be the best way to measure the health of U.S. cities. What look like the "best places to live" may not, in fact, be the best places to live. Read the whole thing. We Don't Know Enough About Risks to the Vaccinated — Faye Flam Fidelity's Hiring Spree Is a Cautionary Signal — Jared Dillian California Will Be Fine If Larry Elder Becomes Governor — Tyler Cowen Jack Ma's Celebrity Friends Will Cost Him Billions More — Shuli Ren Xi Is Forgetting the Very Thing That Made China Great Again — Michael Schuman Space Junk, Long Feared, Is Now an Imminent Threat — Adam Minter What I Wish I Understood When Starting Out In My Career — Barry Ritholtz The EU's Guidelines on U.S. Visitors Sound Like Trade War Diplomacy — Lionel Laurent The Jersey Shore Is Sinking. Do We Want to Save It? — Francis Wilkinson Here's what we've been talking about this week. |
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