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Common Sense Manifesto #4: Identity politics won't save us
Have I been running the Biden Administration?
You can help the poorest people in the world
We need reality-based energy policy
Trump's economic team is on a collision course with reality
Can we have a family friendly high rise?
How Trump can lead on vaccine development, again
What if the first Gulf War never happened?
A common sense economic agenda
How Donald Trump could succeed
Four years of boring hard boards, slowly
A Common Sense Democrat manifesto
When Trump wins, so does the media
Breaking down the election results
Robert Moses's ideas were weird and bad
Is the Democratic Party "hollow"?
A Democratic Senate could need more independents
Biden's foreign policy disappointment
A positive case for Kamala Harris
Ta-Nehisi Coates's prophetic vision
Democrats need to talk about their good issues
This economic myth needs to go away
The electorate is becoming less racially polarized
Can we rescue comprehensive immigration reform?
Live Matt Yglesias / Nate Silver video dialogue on Wednesday
The history of third parties in America
All the stuff expiring next year, explained
Media organizations are blowing their endorsements
The Protestant Reformation was a really big deal
How the government can help increase housing supply
The state-owned enterprise America needs
How to win men's votes without backing down on women's rights
Housing policy isn't that complicated
Trump’s incredibly dumb economic mistake
Noah Smith is too down on nuclear energy
Congress needs to invest in itself
Social media regulation beyond antitrust
Same-party transitions are surprisingly difficult
The candidates who need your money the most
Trump's tax plans mean higher mortgage interest rates
How Democrats and Republicans Plan to Flip Key Seats
In defense of soft, weak Zoomers
Let foreign airlines fly domestic routes
Harris is right on the merits about fracking
The tired dance of the demagogue
How frontline Republicans talk to swing voters
Friday thread + happy hour info
Housing and the population slowdown
Can new data solve an immigration puzzle?
Sixteen thoughts on a great debate
The federal government should unleash DC housing
How to think smarter about taxes
How frontline Democrats talk to swing voters
A simple swap to boost growth and improve national security
To fight wokeness, vote Harris
What if Hillary Clinton had won in 2008?
Against the "price gouging" theory of inflation
Addressing America's traffic death crisis
Thursday thread and save the date!
The crank realignment is bad for everyone
Voters care about issues, even lobstermen
The promise and peril of Obama's YIMBY turn
The coming world of ubiquitous price discrimination
What the AI debate is really about
What everyone is getting wrong about crime in DC
Neoliberalism and its enemies IV
The election is extremely close
Can an AI health coach fight chronic disease?
Localizing politics in a nationalized world
Global warming, local benefits
Politicians should talk to the press more
Bring back the revolving door!
Online sports betting hurts consumers
The overblown military-industrial complex
What’s better than calling Trump weird?
The declining significance of race, quantified
Neoliberalism and its enemies, Part III
Thirteen ways of looking at Tim Walz
Latin America has Bukele-fever
How to fix presidential primaries
Kamala Harris should shake the Etch-A-Sketch
The most interesting ballot measures of 2024
What to make of the global far-right
Make the VP selection on the merits!
The eternal return of conservative populism
Rent control is not the answer
17 thoughts on the transformation of the race
The most money goes where it matters the least
The VP is clearly the stronger candidate
Trump's tariffs mean big opportunities for corruption
We have more agency than we like to admit
The economic policy implications of a Republican landslide
What happens when party leaders step aside?
Can we do better than partisan primaries?
The promise and peril of tourism booms
Twenty-seven more thoughts about the state of the race
Robotaxis should be a wakeup call for cities
Human history in the very long run
The strange history of osteopathic medicine
What we learned from the Slow Boring reader survey
The case against municipal fragmentation
The NBA has an audience problem
Emergency Debate Pod: Bye Bye Biden?
Honor demands Joe Biden step aside
Elite misinformation is an underrated problem
The history of third parties in America
High-pressure youth sports is bad for America
We need to fix the organ transplant network
Can Uncle Sam fix the cost of living?
The Bush-era origins of NYC congestion pricing
Are "ultra-processed" foods really the problem?
Trump's presidency was a huge mess
A better approach to forest management
The benefits of immigrant workers
The truth about profits and inflation
Biden is doing the right thing on asylum
Mad Max's implausible post-oil eco-dystopia
New York's congestion pricing disaster
Tackling the college presidency crisis
How China plays western companies against each other
The current era of age polarization is unusual
Most young people aren’t liberals
What if Italy joined the Central Powers in World War I?
Moderate donors should do something that isn't stupid
Africa needs malaria vaccines as soon as possible
Taking irrational voters seriously
How I went from left to center-left
The surprisingly hard question of who pays taxes
The failures of Zionism and anti-Zionism
Trump scams the people who trust him
The economics of the New Cold War
Banning lab-grown meat is really bad
Expand higher education opportunities for police
Friday grab bag: The war on complexity
Housing reform should be bipartisan
The geopolitical underpinnings of Sudan's collapse
Did the Vietnam War protests backfire?
🚨 🚨 Trump is TERRIFIED of your grassroots support
The misinformation that actually matters
How to make a difference in the 2024 election
Making marijuana legalization work better
Members of Congress should actually live in DC
Friday grab bag: Breaking the jobs / health insurance link
Restaurants should charge more for reservations
America should spend more on prison management
Young voters care about the same stuff as everyone else
We must end the litigation doom loop
Immigration can power American energy
Friday Grab Bag: Taking industrial policy seriously
Self-driving cars are underhyped
George W. Bush was a terrible president
College students should study more
Ask how to solve problems, not why they happened
The Take Bakery: How to save local journalism
Larry Summers isn’t worried about secular stagnation anymore
Why it’s hard to measure antisemitism
The economic research policymakers actually need
Our broken global humanitarian system
The Take Bakery: Simplifying the income tax code
Friday Grab Bag: American education is ... fine
Negativity is making everyone miserable
A history (and defense) of left vs right
Tuesday thread — and mailbag time!
Smartphones in schools are bad
The case for counterfactual history
The Take Bakery: How to reform the sports gambling industry
The pro-social reality TV show we need
The truth about the Biden economy
The new politics of abortion rights
The Take Bakery: Make America(n Basketball Prospects) Great Again
Rethinking the opening with China
17 thoughts four years after Covid
House Republicans' (bad) plan for America
State-level climate targets don't make sense
The Take Bakery: Anonymous Congress
Learning from short-term rental bans
Democrats should try harder to win tough races
Tuesday thread + Wednesday happy hour
It’s the right time for austerity
The police are in the wrong places
The Take Bakery: A three-day presidential election
The "spa-fication" of everything
Smarter ways to boost drug innovation
How the federal government can help on housing
Tuesday thread + happy hour details
Why Putin wants credit for Belgium's independence
AOC's slow boring of hard boards
Debbie Downer progressives aren't helping
How Slow Boring plans to cover the 2024 election
Alex Ward explains Biden's foreign policy
How IRA results are stacking up to predictions
Can we NIMBY cars instead of houses?
Republicans can't stop swallowing Russian propaganda
Improve student “tracking” don’t eliminate it
Sunday thread—and a new mailbag era
21 thoughts on the Biden age question
End of the mailbag as we know it
The rise of cosmopolitanism and the crisis of liberalism
The high cost of promoting homeownership
The Super Bowl should've been yesterday
The case for the immigration deal
Lots of people lose jobs even in a "good economy"
America's soft power isn't the problem
Joe Biden is currently losing the election
Trump's foreign policy was a humanitarian disaster
How lie detectors exacerbate border problems
Unleash the power of bipartisan NRC reform
The two crises in the news business
Rich businessmen remember they're Republicans
Wednesday thread and DC happy hour
Nostalgia politics is a dead end
Immigrants need market-rate housing
Housing reform should actually add housing
The pandemic's lesson on teacher licensure
Mailbags (and movies) need writers
Misunderstanding antisemitism in America
Are index funds killing competition?
Conservatives' terrible case for more regulation
William Julius Wilson Thought deserves a comeback