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The weirdest academic controversy of 2023
What I learned reading every Harry Bosch book
Merry Christmas, and thank you!
The case for proportional presidentialism
Can PR and presidentialism get along?
A real cost-reduction agenda for the New Year
Malthusian intuitions are destroying our politics
In pursuit of the best comment section on the internet
Trump won't make lobster tails cheaper
Copyright law is living in the past
Is it time for a second look at Kamala Harris?
“Expedited removal” won’t fix asylum
Another brutal year for the media industry
The two-state solution is still best
Obamacare repeal is back, and it's still bad
The tyranny of climate targets
How to unleash a trailer home boom
Is this mailbag "screen time"?
The implosion of the climate left
17 points to raise with center-right relatives
Business leaders are ignoring Elon Musk's antisemitism
Trump would make inflation worse
America needs more "bureaucrats," not fewer
Veterans Day rerun: The most important election of our lifetime
23 thoughts on the 2023 midterms
Happy hour reminder and hiring news
America’s two homelessness problems
What happened with Covid NPIs?
The 2020 murder surge wasn't about Covid
Do voters like moderate messages more?
Against murder-suicide politics
Israel, Palestine, and the need for principled free speech
Professional development mailbag
Melissa Kearney on "Two Parent Privilege"
A conversation about two-parent privilege
Palestinian right of return matters
VP selections aren’t taken seriously enough
Democrats should talk more about healthcare
Radicalization doesn't help anyone
The "Deaths of Despair" narrative is wrong
It's time for a fiscal commission
Fifteen thoughts on Kevin McCarthy's downfall
Unlocked: The past and future of the city
When Trump wins, so does the media
Carbon pricing deserves to make a comeback
The policy implications of self-driving cars
The Biden/Harris ticket should try hard to win
Bobby, Nikki, Kamala, Vivek, and me
What I learned losing 70 pounds
Racial polarization is going down, not up
Trump's new economic plan is terrible
What does "broken windows" policing mean?
The real reason Biden's child poverty gambit failed
Hot town, summer in the mailbag
Taking Biden’s oil strategy to the next level
Hostility to immigration isn’t about economics
In praise of courtyard apartments
The social science of reading isn't so clear
Ramaswamentum is a product of Bored Journalist Syndrome
Republicans' plan to bomb Mexico is bad
The IRA as inflation reduction
A serious case for dynamic scoring
Argentina's economic dilemma — and ours
Public pools need an abundance agenda
Maximilian I, Emperor of the Mailbag
Specialization and high-productivity? Try that in a small town!
“Coalitions” can’t excuse sloppy thinking
Democrats need Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Kamala Harris wrote a good book about crime
It’s a good time to cut the deficit
Ignore "The Safest City in America" Rankings
Vivek Ramaswamy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
The rise of the liberal Democrat
To build an egalitarian society you need taxes
Europe's "law and order" urbanism
Harvard will never be an engine of social mobility
I was wrong about the American Rescue Plan
How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
The tragedy of the Manhattan Project
New evidence that we're solving more murders
A bold plan to fix health care
Amy Finkelstein's plan to fix American health care
DeSantis is to Trump’s right on everything
Banning background checks increases racial discrimination
America has better geography for fast trains than France
How Obama (and Trump and Biden) beat Europe
Your best ideas on increasing housing supply wanted
Stricter border control, more immigration
Bill Clinton was not a great guy
How fracking reshaped the world
Two visions of environmentalism
How human translators are coping with competition from powerful AI
Happy 4th of July! Why are young liberals so depressed?
19 thoughts on affirmative action
Independent state legislature theory, explained
Why it's harder for families to "thrive"
Why most gun arrests in D.C. don't lead to charges
Wages really are growing faster than inflation
Community meetings aren't democracy
A vaccine discussion worth having
How to get people to quit crime
Jennifer Doleac explains the evidence on recidivism
How NBA Twitter fixed basketball’s bad officiating
Can Democrats Win Back the Working Class?
CEO pay hasn't risen much lately
Is ever-better video content breaking society?
Wildfires have partially reversed crucial progress on clean air
What should America make of Modi's India?
Particulate-induced brain fog mailbag
Official data is flawed, epistemic nihilism is worse
Are young men conservative now?
Dara Lind gets into the weeds on immigration
In the weeds of immigration policy with Dara Lind
Grinding green rocks into tiny dust could be very helpful on climate change
Conservatives should embrace filibuster reform
What can we really learn about housing from Vienna?
"Misinformation" isn't just on the right
Seventeen thoughts on the debt ceiling deal
Foreign aid could be accomplishing so much more
Why teacher evaluation reforms flopped
Democrats' strange victory in the 2022 midterms
Housing abundance beyond my backyard
Elon Musk is wrong about George Soros and Magneto
Doing the math on deficit reduction
Is talking about democracy a good way to defend it?
The spatial misallocation of police officers
It's time for Joe Biden to buy some oil
I'm skeptical that powerful AI will solve major human problems
I'm still not feeling very optimistic about Chicago
Ron DeSantis is struggling without the Covid issue
Yet another study confirms YIMBYs are right about everything
Every policy objective, all the time, all at once
There's no big mystery about why colleges are ditching the SAT
The criminal justice system doesn’t do enough to make us safe
Medicaid work requirements are cruel and pointless
The strange death of education reform Part IV
Bad incentives and the politics of fear
What's actually happening in El Salvador?
Transit Costs Project discussion group
Almost half of American counties have shrinking population
"Objective" journalism was a business model
The policing pipeline problem needs more work
YIMBYism can liberate us from anti-capitalism
Public services are good, but they're not "public goods"
Biden made the right call on Willow
The illegally carried handguns are the problem
The biggest problem in media is the audience
Nature's bad editorial is a small part of a bigger problem
The strange death of education reform, part three
Nostalgia economics is totally wrong
Good schools (still) matter for low-income kids
How banks create money out of nothing
Europe needs to get ready for America's financial commitment to Ukraine to shrink
Slow Boring x Transit Costs Project Event
Tax increases are the best cure for inflation
More energy would solve a lot of environmental problems
No taxpayer funds were used in the writing of this mailbag
The strange death of education reform, part two
America needs more giant banks
Don't overthink poverty in the United States
Does Joe Biden mean what he says on industrial policy?
What the 15-minute city misses
Individual action on climate is big deal again
The strange death of education reform, part one
Pro sports leagues should be more open to change
Exclusionary suburbs are a bad model for public safety
Why are young liberals so depressed?
Lab leak is not a debunked conspiracy theory and never has been
Misinformation isn't just on the right
The once and future carbon tax
Political lessons from Jamaican Patois
We can't tolerate fake, expired, and obscured car tags
Progressives need to engage with the specific questions about youth gender care
Don't give up on police reform
A targeted crackdown on "junk fees" makes a lot of sense
The state of our mailbag is strong
Joe Biden didn't make eggs expensive
Biden has been tougher on China than Trump
The pandemic is still upending the economy in surprising ways
Commemorate history, don't preserve old buildings
Americans have been gaining weight for as long as records exist
A boring and obvious way to get more rural votes
Recent layoffs at Big Tech don't spell economic doom
An honor just to be nominated for the mailbag
Republicans can't even explain what they're trying to do with the debt ceiling
Why I'm worried about D.C.'s criminal code re-write
Joe Biden's conditional optimism about America
Zoning reform lessons from the closing of 16th-century English monasteries
What's going on with inflation?
Never answer mailbag questions angry!
America needs more Class VI wells
Who is included by "inclusive" language?
What does "induced demand" really amount to?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s push for material redistribution
Slightly contrarian, mildly annoying, somewhat influential mailbag
The most important 2016 "misinformation" came from the regular news media
A new plan to get around the debt ceiling hostage
American transit agencies should prioritize ridership over other goals
A conversation with GiveWell's Elie Hassenfeld
Income inequality has been falling for a while now