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I think the path followed by electric cars over the past decade are a good way of thinking about this stupid debate about meat, and about the policy that will

I love this @AnnieLowrey jeremiad against the term "low-skill jobs." Those jobs aren't low-skill. They're low-wage, and calling them low-skill is a way of blaming often exploited workers for inequality

One fun thing about having a toddler is how relentlessly they point out all public services in eyesight at any given moment. Mail trucks! Fire engines! Playgrounds! Buses! Libraries! Bridges!

“You’re repurposed as fodder for content generation in a way that’s just so dehumanizing. I don’t really believe in cancel culture, I think it’s a platform failure.”https://warzel.substack.com/p/its-not-cancel-culture-its-a-plat

My column last week was about whether regulators in America have been too cautious, so afraid of the consequences of getting a decision wrong that they've cost lives through inaction

There are (at least!) four big reasons why Biden's presidency has been so much bigger, so much more ambitious, than the rest of his career:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/opinion/biden-jobs-infrastructure-economy.html 1. The collapse

"Voter suppression is not just about direct denial; on a deeper level, it is about fostering intimidation, cynicism, and exhaustion to stop people from even trying to vote in the

I voted today, early, in California. I couldn't use the mail-in ballot because I'd moved between when they sent it and when voting began. Even so: where I voted, there

I've been thinking a lot about this quote:“In moments of extraordinary politics, in moments of transition between eras, the struggle is not to save the old regime, and political hardball

Biden, more than any presidential candidate in my lifetime, is behaving like winning the primary established him as party leader, not just triumphant nominee.https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1260520449198489600 More on this theme here:https://www.vo

It is INSANE that a national testing program is being framed as a concession to congressional Democrats.It is even more insane that it might be true: yes, Trump should WANT

Cuomo gets a lot more coverage because the national media is based in New York and his brother is on CNN, but CA has contained coronavirus much better than NY,