Sitemap - 2026 - Slow Boring
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