Mailbag IV: A New Hope

Popularism & civil rights, GiveWell for downballot races, and more

I want to start by acknowledging that there have been several queries about the opioid epidemic recently. I keep ducking them because I don’t have any good answers, but I am going to read this Stanford-Lancet report on the subject and try to understand their policy recommendations. Once I do that, I might have something more to say.

For now, though, on …