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New Year’s Eve Thread

It's the end of the year as we know it

Thursday Thread

Predictions are hard

Wednesday Thread

My favorite movies of 2021

Tuesday Thread

Charles Mills' "Black Rights, White Wrongs"

Monday Thread

The case for a tax swap

Sunday Thread

Christmas Thread

Friday Thread

Thursday Thread

Human history in the very long run

Wednesday Thread

Don't close schools

Tuesday Thread

$1.75 trillion is plenty of money to write a good Build Back Better bill

Monday Thread

Nobody is acting like they believe the future of democracy is at stake

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The case against "creating jobs"

Thursday Thread

Omicron looks pretty scary

Omicron looks pretty scary

Wednesday Thread

The good news on America's cleaner water

Tuesday Thread

Curtailing labor supply is a terrible way to boost wages

Curtailing labor supply is a terrible way to boost wages

Monday Thread

California’s math detracking initiative seems pretty misguided

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

The case for Medicare Advantage reform

Friday Thread

A boring post about how monetary policy works

Thursday Thread

"Latinx" is a symptom not the problem

"Latinx" is a symptom, not the problem

Wednesday Thread

Our public health agencies should follow the science

Tuesday Thread

The CDC's vaccine data is all wrong

The CDC's vaccine data is all wrong

Monday Thread

What is the goal of child care policy?

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Public opinion was very conservative in the 1990s

Thursday Thread

A better way to build back better

A better way to build back better

Wednesday Thread

"Stop and frisk" was really bad

Tuesday Thread

Omicron is a reminder of how little we're doing on pandemic prevention

Omicron is a reminder of how little we're doing on pandemic prevention

Monday Thread

America should invest in its federal legislature

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

What we learned from the Scotland climate summit

Friday Thread

The suffering is real, but there is no "Havana Syndrome"

Thanksgiving Thread

Giving thanks to Slow Boring members

Wednesday Thread

The most important election of our lifetime

We're all doing our own research

Tuesday Thread

We're all doing our own research

Monday Thread

How to be an anti-racist

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The real world is nominal

Thursday Thread

On what matters

On what matters

Wednesday Thread

The AMA's "Advancing Health Equity" plan leaves out everything that matters

Tuesday Thread

Time to declare victory on stimulating the economy

Time to declare victory on stimulating the economy

Monday Thread

Expanded legal immigration is the ultimate supply side reform

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

European countries have really high taxes

Veterans’ Day Thread

"Critical Race Theory" and actual education policy, part two

Happy Veterans’ Day

Wednesday Thread

Paid parental leave should be universal — and actually focused on parents

Tuesday Thread

"Critical Race Theory" and actual education policy, part one

"Critical Race Theory" and actual education policy, part two

Monday Thread

"Critical Race Theory" and actual education policy, part one

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

American trains need more than railfan nostalgia

Friday Thread

Automate as much traffic enforcement as possible

A very important Dune explainer

Thursday Thread

Automate as much traffic enforcement as possible

Wednesday Thread

We need to try harder to prevent the next pandemic

Tuesday Thread

Energy innovation needs more than R&D

Energy innovation needs more than R&D

Monday Thread

Val Demings wants to catch more murderers

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Slow Boring’s second year starts soon

Thursday Thread

What "transitory" means and why it matters

What "transitory" means and why it matters

Wednesday Thread

The politics of abundance

Tuesday Thread

Congressional moderates could make a party of their own

Congressional moderates could make a party of their own

Monday Thread

The progressive mobilization myth is alive and well

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Cash benefits are the best family policy

Thursday Thread

When do we wind down the Covid theater?

When do we wind down the Covid theater?

Wednesday Thread

Dave Chappelle and the still-doomed politics of shunning

Tuesday Thread

The inflation situation is pretty simple

The inflation situation is pretty simple

Monday Thread

My best case against popularism

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Economists aren't the problem on climate change

Thursday Thread

Amazon isn’t lowering wages

Amazon isn’t lowering wages

Wednesday Thread

The nuclear policy America needs

The upside of education polarization

Tuesday Thread

The nuclear policy America needs

Monday Thread

Why state legislatures don't work (and how to fix them)

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The case for more energy

The BIF is a pretty BFD

Thursday Thread

The case for more energy

Wednesday Thread

Progressives' mobilization delusion

The myth of the urban plague

Tuesday Thread

Is quiet climate policy enough?

Monday Thread

Progressives' mobilization delusion

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

America's cities need multi-party democracy

Friday Thread

Interview with Kathryn Paige Harden

Kathryn Paige Harden on The Genetic Lottery

Kyrsten Sinema must be stopped

Thursday Thread

My favorite Covid counterfactuals

My favorite Covid counterfactuals

Wednesday Thread

Airbnb is good, actually

Tuesday Thread

A permanent CTC expansion with a sharper means-test would protect poor kids better and be more popular

A permanent CTC expansion with a sharper means-test would protect poor kids better and be more popular.

Monday Thread

Education polarization is only growing

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Urban/rural polarization is about racial attitudes

Thursday Thread

The dangerous passivity of the moderate Democrats

The dangerous passivity of the moderate Democrats

Wednesday Thread

The hollowing out of Somerville

The median voter is a 50-something white person who didn't go to college

Tuesday Thread

The transit projects D.C. needs

Monday Thread

The hollowing out of Somerville

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

California's recall system is really bad

Thursday Thread

The dumbest debt ceiling fight yet

The dumbest debt ceiling fight yet

Wednesday Thread

Homelessness is about housing, not addiction or mental health

Tuesday Thread

An underrated way to boost global vaccine supply

An underrated way to boost global vaccine supply

Monday Thread

WMATA's plans for Metro expansion are bad

Sunday Thread

Twenty years later

Friday Thread

Even mild inflation should change how we think about policy

Thursday Thread

The solution to Joe Manchin's concerns is to ditch the filibuster

The solution to Joe Manchin's concerns is to ditch the filibuster

Wednesday Thread

Should the bus be free?

Tuesday Thread

Visa recapture deserves a place in the reconciliation bill

Labor Day thread

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Full employment is the most important thing the Fed can do to fight climate change

Covid-1889

Covid-1889

More good news about D.C.'s teacher pay reforms

Tuesday Thread

A really boring way to solve more serious violent crimes

Monday Thread

Biden, Afghanistan, and the perils of "doing the right thing"

Sunday Thread

The rapidly shifting Hispanic experience of American criminal justice

Friday Thread

DC's teacher pay reforms are working

America's inflexible public health institutions

Thursday Thread

D.C.'s teacher compensation reform is working

Wednesday Thread

Amtrak's plans aren't good enough

The national security establishment has never cared about Afghanistan

Tuesday Thread

Amtrak's plans for a cash infusion aren't good enough

Monday Thread

Is Cuban healthcare actually good?

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Some farewell policy advice for Texas

The failure of humanitarian militarism

The failure of humanitarian militarism

Wednesday Thread

Why more Porsches means cheaper Priuses

Biden (and Trump) did the right thing in Afghanistan

Tuesday Thread

Biden (and Trump) did the right thing on Afghanistan

Monday Thread

They deliberately put errors in the Census

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Curb inflation by rescinding Trump's tariffs

Thursday Thread

The case against crisis-mongering

Wednesday Thread

Saving openness from immigration

Why everyone is so crazy

Tuesday Thread

Saving openness to immigration

Monday Thread

The once and future politics of the national debt

Sunday Thread

Friday Thread

Hungarian nationalism is not the answer

Thursday Thread

Single family homes don't need exclusionary zoning

Single-family houses are great, single-family zoning is not

Wednesday Thread

How to fix Amtrak

It's good to act before the emergency

Amtrak should bring in foreign experts to make trains great again

Monday Thread

Why has Biden's bipartisanship worked?

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The future of the supermarket

To means-test or not to means-test

Thursday Thread

The future of the supermarket

Wednesday Thread

Kamala Harris should try to be really popular

The economic case for pro-natalism

The economic case for pro-natalism

There are too many scams in higher education

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

What does the "new cold war" with China even mean?

The FDA vs. cost-benefit analysis

Thursday Thread

What does the "new Cold War" with China even mean?

Wednesday Thread

Let's get more people vaccinated

In defense of the old-fashioned idea of "racism"

Tuesday Thread

Let's get more people vaccinated

Monday Thread

The expanded Child Tax Credit won't kill work

Sunday Thread

Friday Thread

The case for banning non-competes

Some ways to change things

The case for banning non-competes

Here are some ways to change things

Challenge accepted, asshole

Wednesday Thread

America needs more electrical transmission lines

Unleash the trailers

America needs more interregional electric lines

Tuesday Thread

Slow Boring seeks researcher

What is the climate left doing?

Unleash the trailers

Monday Thread

What is the climate left doing?

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Maine's remote work opportunity

Maine should capture the remote work opportunity

Thursday Thread

What Martin Luther King really thought

Martin Luther King called for radical redistribution of material resources

Wednesday Thread

Known unknowns

The known unknowns of our hot button debates

Tuesday Thread

Carbon taxes and popularism

Popularism for moderates: The case of the carbon tax

Monday Thread

Independence Day Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The trouble with Moynihan Station

Moynihan Train Hall and our infrastructure problem

Thursday Thread

When experts go astray

When experts go astray

Wednesday Thread

What's the matter with Merrick Garland

What's the matter with Stephen Breyer (and Merrick Garland)?

The history wars

Tuesday Thread

Conservatives can't win the history wars

Monday Thread

What if…

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Thirteen ways of looking at a bipartisan infrastructure deal

The good news on the economy

The Biden economy is good!

Thursday Thread

Make the trains good

We should try to make good trains

Wednesday Thread

The case for tall buildings

The case for tall buildings

Tuesday Thread

Eric Adams, the Machine Man

The Machine Man

Tuesday takes special

Introducing Slow Boring Audio

Podcast: The rise of Secret Congress

The rise and importance of Secret Congress

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

“Future“ and the future of media

Wednesday Thread

In defense of Rochelle Walensky

Apple's App Store policies are a big mistake

Something really good is happening next month

Monday Thread

Why we got more inflation than I expected

Sunday Thread

Farewell from Marc the Intern (feat. Greatest Hits and Two Quick Takes)

Friday Thread

There are a lot of poor white people in America

The fight for democracy is bigger than HR-1

Wednesday Thread

Does supersonic transport have a future?

Tuesday Thread

All news is bad news

Monday Thread

The case for parking reform

Sunday thread

Weekend Update, June 5

Friday Thread

Obama won downscale white people’s votes by pandering to their views

Thursday Thread

The experts underrate full employment

Wednesday Thread

What market does Amazon monopolize?

Tuesday Thread

Criticizing China isn't racist

Big Mac-ghazi

Sunday Thread

It's time to take Andrew Yang's policy ideas seriously

Friday Thread

Free markets are creating a major free speech problem

Thursday Thread

What is historic preservation for?

Wednesday Thread

The media's lab leak fiasco

Tuesday Thread

What comes after the "defund" fad?

Monday Thread

The case for higher alcohol taxes

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The anti-SAT push is misguided

Thursday Thread

Make the Endless Frontier Act great again

Wednesday Thread

Seventeen points on Israel and Palestine

Tuesday Thread

We should have done more bailouts

Monday Thread

Homelessness is about housing

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

Women can win elections

Thursday Thread

The biggest threat to American democracy is it doesn't exist

Wednesday Thread

Don't underreact to one bad jobs report

Tuesday Thread

Most people have been wearing hard pants all year

Monday Thread

Tema Okun's "White Supremacy Culture" work is bad

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update, May 8

Friday Thread

We should get people vaccinated against Covid-19

Thursday Thread

Is inflation coming?

Wednesday Thread

Conservative populists should embrace housing deregulation

Tuesday Thread

Some thoughts on "faculty lounge politics"

Monday Thread

Assessing the different family benefit programs

Sunday Thread

Saturday Thread

Friday Thread

The case against coupon government

Thursday Thread

If you want to talk about racism, talk about racism

Wednesday Thread

Remote work is underrated

What's in Biden's American Families Plan

Tuesday Thread

Joe Biden gets ready to soak the rich

Monday Thread

The rise of self-made billionaires and the fall of economic dynamism

Weekend Update, April 24

Friday Thread

South Korea and America's incredibly stupid Covid debate

Thursday Thread

Who is the racial justice case for zoning reform for?

Wednesday Thread

What to make of the labor shortage talk

Tuesday Thread

Fund the tax police

Monday Thread

Leaving the ESPN Zone of Empires

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update, April 17

Friday Thread

Should we expand the House?

Thursday Thread

Fix the lead pipes

Wednesday Thread

Moderate Democrats should be popularists

Tuesday Thread

HR 1 is kind of half-baked

Monday Thread

More incarceration is not the answer

Building a better welfare state

It's time to get real about climate change and immigration in Central America

Friday Thread

Andrew Yang versus the unrepresentative activists

Thursday Thread

Joe Biden and the care economy

Wednesday Thread

America's "crumbling" roads and bridges are fine

Tuesday Thread

The stakes in Georgia's election changes

Monday Thread

America is rapidly secularizing

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update, April 3

Friday Thread

Joe Biden's next big plan

Thursday Thread

Did the Democratic Majority emerge after all?

The case for NGDP targeting

Tuesday Thread

Homelessness and vacant houses

Monday Thread

"Asset price inflation" is not a thing

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update, March 27

Friday Thread

The coming Unemployment Insurance bottleneck

Thursday Thread

Critical Race Theory and its enemies

Wednesday Thread

America needs clearer goals on migration

Tuesday Thread

How to make the bus better

Monday Thread

Taking the murder surge seriously

Weekend update, March 20

Friday Thread

Joe Biden and the underrated value of winning elections

Thursday Thread

Repealing the estate tax is dumb

Wednesday Thread

Vaccinating the global poor is really important

Tuesday Thread

Meritocracy is bad

Monday Thread

How to pay for infrastructure

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update, March 13

Friday Thread

Wealth isn't what matters

Thursday Thread

The coming (mild) inflation

Wednesday Thread

Consider the wealth tax

Tuesday Thread

Oh, the intellectual property rights you'll extend

Monday Thread

The case for Bernie Sanders, revisited

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update: March 6

Friday Thread

Covid: Year One

Thursday Thread

What can we do about vaccine hesitancy?

Democrats should try harder to win elections

Tuesday Thread

Learning from the Covid economy

Monday Thread

The tragedy of the lost school year

Sunday Thread

Weekend Update, February 27

Friday Thread

Back to normal means ignoring the CDC

Thursday Thread

Neera Tanden and the era of bad faith

Wednesday Thread

The Fed should give everyone a bank account

Tuesday Thread

"Back to normal" isn't a thing

Monday Thread

The case for student debt relief is getting weaker

Sunday quick takes

Stop marketing race-blind policies as racial equity initiatives

Friday Thread

Built Back Better by cleaning up the lead

Thursday thread

Elite colleges should fight for social justice by helping to educate poor kids

Wednesday Thread

Is asymmetrical polarization real?

Tuesday Thread

Approve the AstraZeneca vaccine!

Monday Thread

The myth of the Overton Window

In defense of interesting writing on controversial topics

Weekend update: February 13

Friday Thread

The misguided exam school debate

Thursday thread

A better criticism of Biden's COVID-19 relief plan

Wednesday Thread

Mitt Romney's child allowance plan is pretty exciting

Tuesday Thread

The $1.9 trillion relief plan is not too big

Monday Thread

You can't have progress without change

Biden's anti-mobilization and big stimulus, Romney's child allowance

Friday Thread

QAnon is not a "conspiracy theory"

Thursday Thread

Hard money is a terrible way to fight the racial wealth gap

Wednesday Thread

The real case for universal programs

Tuesday Thread

Why don't we have more vaccines?

Monday Thread

The normie case for filibuster reform

Sunday Thread

Vaccines are better than you think — plus Robinhood, schools, and hurricanes

Friday thread

The future of the superstar city

Thursday thread

The "cancel culture" debate is dumb

Wednesday thread

The “induced demand“ case against YIMBYism is wrong

Tuesday thread

You can't blame bad leaders for everything

Monday thread

Fixing the police will take more funding, not less

Sunday thread

Lawyer-brain, NECTAs, marriage penalties, and the trouble with normal

Saturday thread

Raise the minimum wage

Thursday thread

What happens next

Wednesday thread

The case for vaccine challenge trials

Tuesday thread

What the inflation contrarians get right and how to fix it

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final unfinished struggle

Sunday thread

How Joe Biden's team hopes to turn five vaccine doses into six

Saturday Thread

Friday threat

Universal health insurance is a winning fight worth having

White riot?

Meet the American Rescue Act

The confused debate on “big tech” and free speech

Wednesday thread

Chemtrails over the country club

Tuesday thread

Small business is not the answer

Monday thread

The system doesn't work

Sunday thread

Saturday thread

Friday thread

Public housing is not the answer

Thursday thread

What Joe Manchin's Senate can deliver

The MAGA mob and the imperative to win

Making policy for a low-trust world

Tuesday thread

Republicans' unhinged moderation

Monday thread

The truth about immigration and wages

Sunday thread

Saturday thread

New Year’s Day Thread