Emily Badger

Who millennials trust, and don’t trust, is driving the new economy

April 6, 2019 at 12:05 a.m.

By PricewaterhouseCoopers' projection, the biggest sectors of the "sharing economy" — including transportation and travel companies like Uber, Zipcar and Airbnb — could be pulling in as much as $335...

A $40 million mansion in Washington state with gardens, lagoons, a private dock with space for a 140 foot yacht and 175 feet of lakefront.

The rich get government handouts just like the poor. Here are 10 of them

August 19, 2019 at 12:12 a.m.

In case you are still skeptical that many of the non-poor — and, in fact, a lot of the rich — receive benefits from government too (for which we don't...

Welcome to the world of the $6 bus ride to work, $7 juice not included

June 16, 2018 at 11:43 p.m.

The new venture-backed private transportation service Leap began offering rides in San Francisco last week in a swanky shuttle meant to feel "more like a living room than a bus."...

What happens when Uber and Airbnb become their own regulators?

June 16, 2018 at 7:11 a.m.

Airbnb recently announced it would collect and remit hotel taxes from its users in Washington, D.C., as part of a broader move to resolve tax conflicts — should hosts pay...

How cheap parking makes a lot of life more expensive

June 16, 2018 at 7:52 a.m.

Geof Glass, a Ph.D. student at Simon Frasier University, makes an interesting point in a blog post that's been circulating for the last two days among people online fascinated by...

Uber's rise as a tech company/transit juggernaut has made it a target.

Five myths about Uber

May 11, 2019 at 7:00 a.m.

This month, the ride-hailing app Uber announced that it had raised an additional $1.2 billion from investors, who valued the company at about $40 billion. That staggering number, and the...

Path looks somewhat harder for midmajors

August 21, 2021 at 9:15 p.m.

Frustrated for a few minutes, Wichita State coach Mark Turgeon's voice turns optimistic. He's hinting at what may seem absurd: a Missouri Valley Conference team with seven league losses trying...

2 killed in shootout at U.S. prison

August 21, 2021 at 3:57 p.m.

A guard opened fire in a federal prison Wednesday as agents tried to arrest him and five others in a sex-with-inmates scandal, sparking a gunfight that left him and a...

It’s Championship Week

August 22, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

The most consistent knock on college football is that the sport has no playoff, no system that ends with only one team standing. But it does have Championship Week. Fledgling...

Heisman hype keeps evolving

August 22, 2021 at 8:09 p.m.

In that dead period between spring football and August two-a-days, there's not much to do in the college football war room other than staple old stat packs together and strategize...

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