I meet weekly with the two members of our multimedia team. In the spaces between audio and video work, Jingnan Peng and Mackenzie Farkus both like to write. In a conference room recently we were discussing the story they were reporting for today’s Daily. 

It’s about eminent domain, and about affordable housing as a NIMBY – “not in my backyard” – issue. It has a twist: It’s about a legal bid to take land – not to build, but to prevent building. But in our chat about the core players, all descended from Italian immigrants, something deeper emerged: At its root, this was a story about about two very different definitions of the American dream.