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With a new agenda, the Build America Caucus gets ambitious with abundance
Trump’s new student loan rule is fine
An A.I. legislator running a cost campaign
How blue-state Republicans can be relevant again
“The Argument” podcast, ad free: Europe’s liberals are losing on immigration
Cracks in the Republican coalition
Math needs a phonics-style reckoning
The truth about rich people in America
The housing market is way out of whack
The A.I. apocalypse canon and why it matters
“The Argument” podcast, ad free: Is the A.I. apocalypse coming for us all?
The Republican urge to start wars in the Middle East
Why I send my kid to low-income urban public schools
Is the blue wave forecast by polling real?
What stake does Airbnb have in the supply game?
Trying to convince people you’re right is underrated
“The Argument” podcast, ad free: Why the worst people always end up in charge
Republicans are playing defense in what should be easy races
Destroying women’s sports in order to save it
Sanctions on West Bank settlements aren’t enough
A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.
What I’ve learned after a year covering housing
We’re still underrating 9/11’s impact
The economy could survive a downtick in A.I.
The 9/11 attacks and the crisis of global liberalism
Alaska’s ranked choice voting: Six years of experimenting and its biggest test yet
Trump’s terrible plan to break skilled immigration
There’s an awful lot we don’t know about data centers
The return of institutional purpose
Slow Boring D.C. happy hour on Wednesday
You can’t blame housing shortages for literally everything
Stop making up reasons to be mad
Is there a liberal center? Should there be?
Coalescence or ... no-alescence
An easy way to give kids more freedom
Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage
The many ways to build more housing
Democrats should vow to surrender in the Canada trade war
The Great Awokening started in 2014, not 2020
Politics should be more boring
The “anti-social century” with Derek Thompson
As one housing reform works in Texas, another in Colorado hits a budgetary hitch
YIMBYs already have a bold vision for solving the housing crisis
The Western water crisis has a simple solution
Three Dan Sullivans walk into a race for Senate
The real reason nobody feels good about technological progress
What kind of Democrat can win?
Giving the people what they want (not data centers)
Thousands of years of indoor air pollution
Everyone hates the “elites,” but who are they?
The have-and-have-not housing market
Two kinds of moderate Democrats
The invisible faction that dominates the Democratic Party
Woke 1 is dead. We’ve learned nothing.
History often hinges on boring technical questions
Medicare for All should be more like Medicare
From “Bowling Alone” to scrolling alone
New York is building. But where?
Abdul El-Sayed can win moderate voters
The $20 burrito tearing the Republican Party apart
The left is winning primaries. Can it win general elections?
A strange gifted education success story
Theater is weird, and that’s the point.
In praise of commercial culture
The message behind Christopher Nolan’s most important change to “The Odyssey”
They’ve had it up to here with the NIMBYs
Republicans are in too little disarray
Mamdani’s not the first to try to bring cheap groceries to N.Y.C.
Democrats are winning the polls but losing the plot
Democrats should seize the chance to end the filibuster
12 things I’ve learned in 12 months of writing for Slow Boring
Mega-events are the new monoculture
How Trump made America less popular than China
The case against homeownership
Why free markets beat capitalism
A great idea that everyone hates
Historical accuracy is a surprisingly modern idea
Great speeches need good ideas
Will A.I. take your job? Mine? Everyone’s?
Housing is at the top of everyone’s agenda
How the center-left can come back in 2028
Democratic fields are shifting; G.O.P. bank accounts are growing
The futile quest to define class in America
Vibes are winning, whether you like it or not
The data center backlash isn’t just NIMBYism
The progressive executive power delusion
Is there any “oligarchy” to fight?
The abundance agenda has arrived
Trump hasn’t even tried to pass an immigration bill
The midterm candidates who deserve your money
The promise and peril of an abundance faction
Mark Carney’s national liberalism
Jane Jacobs’s urbanism without economics
Upzoned, overbid, under construction
The Resistance’s favorite poker metaphor makes no sense
Baltimore’s incredible crime-fighting success story
Where key battleground races stand four months before the midterm elections
To save capitalism we need radical land-use reform
Happy Independence Day weekend
Reformist Democrats need more team spirit
They should teach patriotism in schools
Congress waits, cities experiment
Trump’s weird D.C.-specific initiatives, ranked
New York’s insurgent left sent ripples across America
What New York City taught me about Dutch values
The SAVE America Act (and related orders), explained
The narrow path to saving the republic
Congress passed the biggest housing bill in a generation. Trump is holding it hostage.
Should data centers pay a carbon tax?
What I learned as Chuck Schumer’s intern
When Trump’s influence is no match for money’s
Grading the internet’s dating advice
Congress cuts a deal on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
How to fix transit construction in America
The real problem with “gifted” education
Better immigration can help fix the debt
Good news and bad news for Democrats’ Senate odds
Against the “Positive Good” theory of Platner
A German soccer fan walks into a Buc-ee’s and discovers abundance
Can we retire “public safety”?
Matt and Jerusalem read “Silent Spring”
A market moves, with a crisis unresolved
Trump’s war on state capacity is coming home to roost
Nobody knows what they’re talking about on A.I. consciousness
Trump and Schumer test their endorsement power
The neglected importance of boring methodological disputes
What Colonial Williamsburg can teach us about the trades revival
The origins of horseshoe politics
Elizabeth Warren’s “new“ child care push doesn’t make sense
The housing regulator is now also the spymaster
Learning from Poland’s economic success story
DC Happy Hour + Tuesday discussion post
James Talarico has an obligation to win
Seventeen thoughts on Graham Platner
Union enthusiasts should support abundance
The amazing — somewhat mysterious — crime drop
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act finally passed the House
Time to freak out about the national debt
Ideas are still big but books got small
The dumb policy making groceries more expensive
The strategic case against Chinese EVs
We can fix the Trump/Warren build-to-rent ban
A diverse “Odyssey” is the triumph of Western civilization
Trump’s China policy is a disaster
You can’t prepare for the next pandemic without confronting the last one
How to know what politicians really think
What the Spirit debate is really about
The case for clean energy abundance
Why kids don’t go anywhere anymore
Democrats have, for now, lost the redistricting war
Hantavirus is a reminder we should prepare for the next pandemic
This Mother’s Day, let moms have Waymo
The real lesson of Spirit’s bankruptcy
Matt and Jerusalem read Betty Friedan’s classic, “The Feminine Mystique”
Political commentary should be boring
Don’t copy Donald Trump’s failed presidency
Seniors aren’t living on “fixed incomes”
Trump is losing his own people
We should pay more for the best teachers
More of Halina’s hottest takes
The case for housing is jobs and growth
Technological progress isn’t always good
A strong month in a fragile market
Ken Martin is doing a terrible job
A radical idea for breaking the cycle of public anger
What the offline discourse class is talking about
What to make of the generic ballot
Should we miss hypocritical idealism in American foreign policy?
Housing policy keeps running into the same problems
If Israel doesn’t like how it’s perceived, it should change its behavior
Candidates shouldn’t release lots of “plans”
Playing baseball like it’s 1864
It’s not “bad marketing” from A.I. companies
Destroy the internet to save it?
When more housing becomes a hard sell
The NBA's problems are so much bigger than tanking
The girlboss was never a feminist ideal
Most politicians are charming and persuasive in person
Should race matter in college admissions?
Republican war-mongering is their worst economic policy
Journalists should use A.I. more
11 jobs that (probably) won’t be taken by A.I.
The quest for a straight white Christian male savior is dumb
The Iran war is raising your mortgage rate
The real problem with billionaires
Yelling at ambitious young women won’t boost marriage
The case for the “Solid B” city
Unrealistic plans to fix America’s gun problem
In defense of being wildly out of touch
Why hasn’t oil gotten even more expensive?
The Democratic Party’s debate has become more confusing
Ed tech is not the answer or the problem
In defense of having a dumb thing to care about
The racial justice case for zoning reform
Why Silicon Valley hasn’t done more for most Americans
Quinceañeras and Republican tumult
Upscale liberals are developing class consciousness
Could the Second Mexican Empire have endured?
I don’t buy your “dating recession”
The demonic policy strangling the British economy
Maybe *all* rental housing should be owned by large institutional investors
One bad provision could sink a critical bipartisan housing bill
First primaries, first lessons
Everyone gets canceled sooner or later
100 years of increasing leisure
All wired up and nowhere to go
America should be less involved in the Middle East
Is a new teacher better off in Mississippi than in New York?
Supply, skepticism, and scandal
Solar in poor countries is creating a huge lead hazard
The anti-antisemitism movement is failing
Tomorrow is the first official test in the midterms
Lobsters and the limits of neoliberalism
N.H.L. players are Republicans
Mayors need to understand the problem
I’m not convinced the “A.I. backlash” is real
The State of the Union’s housing non-moment
Legal sports gambling has gone way too far
Democrats need to think bigger on utilities
Democrats don’t need a Project 2029
Republicans are complaining about a redistricting war they started
Charismatic leaders can roll their base
Jesse Jackson and the rise of the progressive movement
A House caucus hopes to fix housing
A.I. progress is giving me writer’s block
Trump’s terrible plan to revive coal
Presidential democracy was a mistake
Marriage is down but Valentine’s Day is bigger than ever
Gavin Newsom’s electoral track record is bad
Americans think everyone is corrupt
Housing has a pulse ... and a reckoning
The liberal case for the Olympics
Don’t let Elon Musk monopolize space compute
Big swings and calls for moderation
DoorDash and the dilemma of affluence
A country can’t get rich by making housing scarce
An upset in Texas and a New Jersey primary
Gavin Newsom is very similar to Kamala Harris
Immigration enforcement’s accountability gap
Trump embraces affordability slop
A housing start-up hopes to save the American dream
“Corporate power” doesn’t mean anything
Retirements are changing the map
Trump’s war on birthright citizenship gets its day in court
Winter-weather weekend recommendations
The shocking collapse of American vaccination
Liberalism and the search for meaning
One (or maybe five) years of Trump
Blame Trump for Trump-era immigration excesses
Housing abundance vs. energy efficiency
Schools are getting worse in most red states
Theft is not the road to prosperity
What the Maduro indictment actually says
The actual barrier to self-driving cars
A reply to critics on American oil and gas
What to watch leading up to the 2026 midterm elections