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My ten favorite movies of 2022
A look back at my predictions for 2022
What follows from the idea that new construction raises rents?
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Beginning to feel a lot like Mailbag
To reduce mass incarceration, reduce violence
Secret Congress delivers more good news on clean water
We should pair marijuana legalization with tougher rules on booze
The Fed can't save the economy
Cryptocurrency is the Segway of finance
Elon Musk is the latest victim of the online ragetrap
The midterms should be a stake through the heart of the mobilization myth
Why hasn’t technology disrupted higher education already?
Artisanal, human-crafted mailbag
Amtrak should build a good train
What I learned co-founding Vox
The strange career of the expanded Child Tax Credit
A lot of the best political messages are really boring
The climate left's plans for the next two years are bad
New York City shouldn't be covered in sidewalk sheds
Cities shouldn't reject growth in the name of climate mitigation
How Jay Powell is bending time and upending the business world
How to promote growth and equality without raising taxes
A Nancy Pelosi appreciation post
Some thoughts on the FTX collapse
I would like to know Ron DeSantis’ opinions on major policy issues
Two years of strong and slow boring of hard boards
Democrats pulled off one of the best midterms ever
What is Queen Rhaenyra's tax policy?
There’s no substitute for being right all the time about everything
What's concretely at stake in the midterms
D.C. is right to crack down on metro fare evasion
Elon Musk needs to make Twitter better
Part 2: Brad Delong on Slouching Toward Utopia
Getting back on track with the Latino vote
One Billion Americans — now more than ever
We badly need better alternatives to conventional meat
Brad DeLong on Slouching Toward Utopia
Pre-registering some takes on the midterms
Joe Biden is not the impediment to peace in Ukraine
Where have all the deficit hawks gone?
Elon Musk’s business ties deserve more scrutiny
YIMBYism without markets or supply and demand
Europe should look at hard rationing and price controls for natural gas
Reminder: Slow Boring Book Club Thursday
We need permitting reform for geothermal power
Columbus Day was the original woke holiday
Ten years of YIMBYism have accomplished a lot
Book Review: Richard Reeves' "Of Boys and Men"
To save downtowns, we need to embrace windowless bedrooms
The best way to end mass incarceration is to catch more criminals
We can do better than special accommodations
At last, an AI existential risk policy idea
Beating climate change absolutely requires new technology
It's time to commit to refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Russia's military and economic strategy is failing
Bring back the old bipartisan immigration consensus!
For transportation innovation to work, we need parking reform
The dangerous legal theory in front of the Supreme Court
Are teachers overpaid or underpaid?
Let Joe Manchin have his pipeline
Slow Boring Book Club: Slouching Toward Utopia
Immigrants could help alleviate the child care crisis
The UK really needs better housing policy
Janet Yellen explains Bidenomics
Defending democracy needs appeals to material self-interest
Schools should try to teach kids the basics
The mythical martyrdom of Mitt Romney
Joe Biden should do some boring bipartisan commissions
The student debt crisis as a macroeconomic phenomenon
For the next two years, Biden needs to bring back the economists
We should expect more — and worse — pandemics to come
Funding the tax police is very good
Sitting at home alone has become a lot less boring, and that might be bad
Should Democrats talk more about their values?
What's long-term about "longtermism"?
A totally off-the-news post about taxes
Why does Switzerland work so well?
There's no need to exaggerate Biden's legislative achievements
What do Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis think about federal abortion policy?
Democrats' primary meddling is part of a bigger problem
The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse
Answering Bill Maher's concerns on traffic and One Billion Americans
How the Green New Deal became the Inflation Reduction Act
The way forward on health care
Tackling America's weirdly short life expectancy should be a priority
A bold agenda for D.C. housing
My top 10 issues to run on and why
Amtrak's proposed Union Station renovation is a terrible idea
How Hillary Clinton unleashed the Great Awokening
Pro-life austerity: good luck with that
We could have universal COVID vaccines very soon — if we urgently reform the process
The case for a gas tax increase
We're getting an Omicron-optimized booster many months too late
America needs supply-side reform
Some practical advice for making a difference in the new abortion fight
Why progressive organizations have become so vulnerable to staff meltdowns
The merits of a "narrow target" campaign
Housing inflation is higher than the Fed thinks — but already falling
We're asking the wrong question about AI sentience
Why progressive organizations have become so vulnerable to staff meltdowns
Juneteenth/Father's Day Thread
A windfall profits tax idea that could actually work
Legalize housing, not tent encampments
A windfall profits tax idea that could actually work
Denver Happy Hour today at 6pm
The case against restricting domestic fossil fuel supply
Is American democracy still doomed?
Does the Bush-era poverty cure deserve a comeback?
Is American democracy still doomed?
America spends a lot more on schools than on police
When the "culture war" was about religion
America spends a lot more on schools than on police
Russia's war on the world's food supply
Two cheers for American higher education
Sure, don't "panic" about monkeypox — but it seems pretty bad
We need a new strategy on guns
Expensive energy is really bad
Does the Bush-era poverty cure deserve a comeback?
Remote work is boosting housing demand and driving inflation
Slow Boring Book Club: Streets of Gold
Expensive energy is really bad
Understanding Effective Altruism's move into politics
A straightforward solution to the formula crisis
Let's use unspent Covid funds to make great next generation vaccines
Solving problems by letting people do things
Half the population dying and then returning five years later would be a really big deal
A straightforward solution to the formula crisis
The problem with flexible average inflation targeting
Solving problems by letting people do things
Democrats have changed a lot since 2012
Half the population dying and then returning five years later would be a really big deal
Some boring takes on the French election
Do investor-owned single-family homes cause drug overdoses?
Republicans have changed a lot since 2008
Do investor-owned single-family homes cause drug overdoses?
Overtreatment in American health care is a problem
April mailbag brings May takes
It's time to raise taxes on the rich
Some boring takes on the French election
Twenty-three theses on Elon Musk and Twitter
It's time to raise taxes on the rich
Donald Trump's re-election is a dire threat to free speech
Data privacy is not the issue with TikTok
Data privacy is not the issue with TikTok
Rigorous, accurate policy analysis is underrated
Rigorous, accurate policy analysis is underrated
Housing reform shouldn't be a super-polarized partisan issue
The American Rescue Plan was too big
Do we need a bigger defense budget?
The case for Terminator analogies
The case for Terminator analogies
Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster
What was the popularism debate?
Mancur Olson at the end of history
We need to find ways to do faster clinical research
What was the popularism debate?
The bizarre myth that Ancient Greeks couldn't see blue
How natural gas powers renewables
How natural gas powers renewables
Ukraine and the end of history
Develop a healthier emotional relationship with Joe Manchin
Develop a healthier emotional relationship with Joe Manchin
I’m an optimist about higher education
Abortion activists must learn to lose well
American poverty is too high for all kinds of people
American poverty is too high for all kinds of people
Playing to win against the attacks on LGBTQ progress
The housing shortage and what to do about it
The housing shortage and what to do about it
The Fed should do more to fight inflation
The case against legal gambling
We can do better than a gas tax holiday
We can do better than a gas tax holiday
Climate politics for the real world
What went wrong with Russia in the 1990s
What went wrong with Russia in the 1990s
It's good that people want to support Ukrainian refugees
America needs an actual plan to boost domestic energy
America needs an actual plan to boost domestic energy
The Batman and the case for masked vigilantes
Taking Putin's ideas seriously (and I guess literally, too)
Taking Putin's ideas seriously (and I guess literally, too)
Joe Biden is right about police funding
Episode VII: The mailbag awakens
Europe needs to take primary responsibility for its own defense
A good neighbor policy for the 21st Century
I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
Europe needs to take primary responsibility for its own defense
23 thoughts on the war in Ukraine
A good neighbor policy for the 21st Century
The case for the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Clean air doesn't need explicit racial targeting
Clean air doesn't need explicit racial targeting
The regrettable death of the Slatepitch
The regrettable death of the Slatepitch
The opioid crisis is an objectively very difficult problem
The "misinformation problem" seems like misinformation
The "misinformation problem" seems like misinformation
Democrats' college degree divide
People need to hear the good news about climate change
People need to hear the good news about climate change
Invading Ukraine is a really bad idea
The real story behind last week's jobs report
The real story behind last week's jobs report
What anti-Covid policies actually work?
The past and future of the city
The past and future of the city
What to do after affirmative action
A tepid take on the bipartisan drive to ban tech self-preferencing
A tepid take on the bipartisan drive to ban tech self-preferencing
What we talk about when we talk about a return to normal
The domestication of people and animals
The domestication of people and animals
Chuck Schumer should call the Baileys
Privacy concerns are breaking the Census
Chuck Schumer should call the Baileys
They have homelessness in Europe, too
Housing policy lessons from the microchip shortage
Can the NRC get to yes on a new reactor design?
Matt's Mailbag — the first one ever
Housing policy lessons from the microchip shortage
The false "trap" of bipartisanship
Can America get to yes on a new reactor design?
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s plan for class struggle
The case for rapprochement with Russia
The bad vibes of American political institutions
The myth of the "great resignation"
The myth of the "great resignation"
Is healthy food actually more expensive?
Vaccines were becoming partisan before Covid-19
Vaccines were becoming partisan before Covid-19
"Don't Look Up" and the cinema of existential risk
All kinds of bad behavior is on the rise
The good news on redistricting isn't that good
Jamaica and the case for energy abundance
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Washington/Baltimore/Arlington Combined Statistical Area
"Don't Look Up" and the cinema of existential risk