smart piece from @ryanlcooper.com on ‘dual class’ shares, why we should get rid of them, and how we can
@rcobooth.bsky.socialRachel Cohen Booth
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Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy trying to prod productively
@rcobooth.bsky.social@rcobooth.bsky.socialthis is a reporting tour-de-force from Elizabeth Dias, one of the most revealing and stunning NYT pieces I've read in a long time
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
@rcobooth.bsky.socialappreciated the opportunity to speak about my reporting on some of America’s needlessly difficult divorce laws today on NPR www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
@rcobooth.bsky.socialthanks for this! appreciate it
@tsilverstein.bsky.socialReposted by @rcobooth.bsky.social...from operators of group homes for disabled people. Those challenges don't strike down the laws in their entirety, but they point to the value of repeal: disability inclusion (not that group homes are the epitome of that) is more meaningful if you don't have to make an RA request in the first...
@tsilverstein.bsky.socialReposted by @rcobooth.bsky.socialGreat piece from @rcobooth.bsky.social. Some aspects of this issue not explored in the article but worthy of attention:
- There is a long track record of successful litigation challenges to occupancy limits in the context of rejected reasonable accommodation requests...
@rcobooth.bsky.socialCities spent decades banning cheap rooms for rent. Now a possible Supreme Court case and 'Golden Girls' bills are trying to bring them back.
I wrote about who's behind the push, from conservative legal orgs to progressive YIMBYs and the AARP
@drjenndowd.bsky.socialReposted by @rcobooth.bsky.socialI was also pretty stunned by the wording of this NBER abstract 🫠. As @rcobooth.bsky.social lays out very nicely, there are many important questions to be explored here, but language, especially around reproductive choices, matters. substack.com/home/post/p-... #econsky #demography
@rcobooth.bsky.socialNow I'm not saying these are easy conversations, they're not! but precisely because they're hard, I think we should be mindful about what language we're using. And critiques doesn't mean we're shutting it all down (2/2)
@rcobooth.bsky.socialI appreciate that ❤️ and yes I couldn't help but ontice how so many of them clearly felt they were being brave truth tellers and kind of invoking the whole woke-2020-academia-cancel-culture environment. Like look at my courage to have this discussion. (1/2)
@rcobooth.bsky.socialThere are lots of important questions to explore about our complicated intergenerational shifts and dynamics, and I do believe we can make loving space to do it
@rcobooth.bsky.socialNew: I wrote about the AI-in-schools backlash roiling inside the GOP
@vox.comReposted by @rcobooth.bsky.socialSen. Susan Collins cast the pivotal vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. He then helped overturn Roe v. Wade four years later. Now she’s battling for her Senate seat in the midterms, and abortion rights groups are betting that voters haven’t forgotten how she contributed to the fall of Roe.
@rcobooth.bsky.socialAbortion has faded nationally as a major midterms issue, but it's a top focus in the Maine Senate race, where Democrats are banking that Collins's Kavanaugh vote will cost her in a way it didn't back in 2020.
I went deep for @vox.com. gift link: www.vox.com/policy/50331...
@rcobooth.bsky.socialgreat @kendrahurley.bsky.social piece, and I so agree. the most realistic path forward for universal child care involves allowing parents the option to stay home with their infants. Paid leave can reduce so much pressure from the system, and so many yearn for it www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
@rcobooth.bsky.sociala smart @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social read on how to build climate change policy amid our climate change politics www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
@rcobooth.bsky.socialjust an incredible piece written about Alfred Marchand and the 25 years that followed his death, by my friend Bill Petrich
@almsnatalie.bsky.socialReposted by @rcobooth.bsky.socialSomething that surprised me about this story: the breadth of people that rely on the census for demographic data -- even businesses doing market research. "Procter and Gamble is not going to figure out this new breakfast cereal by talking to every single person in the country."
@rcobooth.bsky.socialI interviewed Anna Louie Sussman about her new insightful book, INCONCEIVABLE — on fertility, families, and economic insecurity.
We talked about AOC, eugenics in 2026, and our role as journalists writing about these issues
@darrencohen.meReposted by @rcobooth.bsky.socialReally good. Reminded me of this from a few months ago. Also it should be tied in with no cash businesses for the same reason. Some places are banning that practice so could tie in non digital options into that legislation. sports.yahoo.com/articles/no-...