Correspondent
Daniel Kessler
4 stories
Four New Insect Species Have Been Named After Taylor Swift, and One Is Called Poetorum
A doctoral student at Riverside spent years identifying specimens that had sat in a drawer since the early 2000s, and named the genus she found…
Daniel Kessler·3 min
The $34,200 Line That Decides Whether Anyone Looks Inside the House
A mortgage written at or below $34,200 escapes the interior appraisal that federal law otherwise demands, and the figure that draws that line has…
Daniel Kessler·4 min
Pacific Private Money: the lender that stopped lending
The Securities and Exchange Commission says one of the firm's two funds had stopped originating new real-estate-backed loans by August 2022 and that…
Daniel Kessler·5 min
When One Sibling Does All the Caring, Geography Gets Blamed for a Choice
The resentment felt by the adult child who lives nearest is entirely reasonable, and the way out of it is a specific conversation rather than a…
Daniel Kessler·3 min