This page shows a weekly updated list of the past week’s ten most popular blog posts by readership.

  1. Why there’s often more to gentrification than meets the eye – Andrew Riely – 13 August

  2. Book Review: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett – Lahlan Summers – 11 August

  3. How Black fraternities are actually harmful to Black culture in the US – Ali Chambers – 15 September 2017

  4. Canada’s quiet complicity with the increasingly elastic US border – Emily Gilbert – 15 August 

  5. Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation – Kristoffer (Kip) Jackson – 7 July 2016

  6. Obama’s legacy is as a disappointingly conventional president – David Wise – 30 April 

  7. Why people need the dark web, whether they want it or not – Ross Bellaby – 17 August

  8. Why it’s bad for democracy when we ignore the voices we would rather not hear – Mary F. (Molly) Scudder – 16 August

  9. When it comes to harmful air pollution, denser cities aren’t greener cities. – Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi – 15 August

  10. Despite job losses, lower prices from trade with China have left US households massively better off. – Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager – 14 August