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On the remote-work controversy, I can't help but think that people who do actual work are more likely to enjoy remote work, where it's easier to concentrate, & managers, whose

All right: A THREAD. A long thread. I had a thought I wanted to add to this piece, but it was a bit of a wonky diversion, so I left

This is a superb history & analysis of Manchin from @awprokop -- a must-read for everyone. It helped me realize, on a deeper, more informed & nuanced level, that I

Don't wanna have this whole dumb argument again, but I will quickly explain why Gates' (and similar tech dudes') rhetoric bugs me. First, by way of preface & forestalling familiar

Older generations in the US do not appreciate the fact that Gen X & younger Americans have never seen functional politics based on shared facts & compromise. To them it

I will be anyone any amount of money that this 45% figure is wildly high.https://twitter.com/tgradous/status/1385907479637336067 Don't wanna have this whole dumb argument again, but I will quickly explain why Gates'

I know, I know, I'm grumpy about everything, but this bugs me, this notion that science dictates what we must do about climate change, and if you just accept science,

One of the most bizarre aspects of US climate politics is that "Republicans aren't going to go along with this & will probably ruin your plans" is implicitly framed as

The most corrosive part of car-dependent land use is that it puts everyone living in it in a zero-sum fight. They think as drivers: an additional resident automatically means more

All the people who think there was some noble, credible US conservatism that has "fallen," or been "taken over" by Trumpism, tell me: why was it so weak? Why did

I used to wonder, "what level of threat would rouse the institutional Democratic Party to actually FIGHT, fight like desperate people willing to do anything to save their country?" It's

I'm a huge NKJ fan & like all of this. But I feel like it makes a common left mistake in focusing too much on the content of messaging &