My favorite movie of 2023 - by Matthew Yglesias
It’s actually about 2023| www.slowboring.com
The House Minority Leader joins Slow Boring| www.slowboring.com
Things are getting way better, but some big unanswered questions remain| www.slowboring.com
You can't drastically reduce government spending without hurting people| www.slowboring.com
What schools can and cannot do for the students who need the most help| www.slowboring.com
Anatomy of a political dead end| www.slowboring.com
Treating people according to the content of their character is good, actually| www.slowboring.com
Changing the way doctors talk isn't nearly as important as the access-broadening policies the AMA has opposed| www.slowboring.com
The most important Econ 101 concept you've never heard of| www.slowboring.com
Getting the right answer matters!| www.slowboring.com
A wise middle ground between Trump's insanity and an unserious left| www.slowboring.com
Political elites justify polarizing decisions with self-fulfilling prophesies| www.slowboring.com
Cognitive behavioral therapy for Democrats| www.slowboring.com
A Harris administration should be open to private sector talent| www.slowboring.com
New evidence makes it clear that more lawmakers need to take the issue seriously| www.slowboring.com
The case for a new (shorter and more moderate) policy agenda| www.slowboring.com
We don’t talk much about the 1908 presidential election, but that I think it was fascinating. The race featured William Howard Taft for the GOP against William Jennings Bryan for the Democrats. By nominating Bryan, a candidate who had already run and lost on two previous occasions, the Democrats were practically throwing this election to the GOP. His signature issue in the 1896 (opposing the gold standard) didn’t really make sense in the context of 1908. And while his populist broadsides ...| www.slowboring.com
Rising margins are why inflation is bad, not why it's happening| www.slowboring.com
What we can learn from political outliers and the legislative story of their electoral success| www.slowboring.com
Joe Biden's America isn't perfect, but things are pretty good!| www.slowboring.com
The goal should be to push more kids into more challenging work| www.slowboring.com
Progressives should focus on building institutions up, not tearing them down| www.slowboring.com
And he needs an administration that believes in Bidenism| www.slowboring.com
Don't be a doomer, but don't take false comfort from 2022 either| www.slowboring.com
The best thing about the past is that things changed more rapidly| www.slowboring.com
In order to win, Democrats need to meet voters where they are| www.slowboring.com
Moving left on economics — but also on climate, race, and a bunch of other things| www.slowboring.com
Or, how a small middle-income island could save the world| www.slowboring.com
The back-to-basics populism that Democrats need| www.slowboring.com
Putin should just say no to pointless blunders| www.slowboring.com
Don't fight "cancel culture" by exaggerating its power| www.slowboring.com
Don't threaten to tank elections to get your way| www.slowboring.com
Especially about the future.| www.slowboring.com
A central issue in an intractable conflict| www.slowboring.com
The right abandons reform in favor of privatization| www.slowboring.com
The rise and fall of the "achievement gap" obsession| www.slowboring.com
The Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action, which was widely expected by people who pay attention to such things but Supreme Court decisions are in general hard to predict so even the “expected” is a bit unexpected. Because I expect the Dobbs decision and abortion rights to feature heavily in Democrats’ 2024 campaign, I expect there will be considerable pressure to fold this decision into a broader critique of right-wing judicial overreach and it’s important to understand that| www.slowboring.com
There's a neglected dimension beyond gender in America's troubled youth| www.slowboring.com
Can normalcy be made interesting?| www.slowboring.com
