Historians hate alternate history, but it's a good way to understand causal claims| www.slowboring.com
A break from actual news| www.slowboring.com
Habsburg federalism could have worked if not for an assassin's bullet| www.slowboring.com
We need technical solutions on steel, cement, agriculture, and more.| Slow Boring
Should empty offices be allowed to define the future of cities?| Slow Boring
They’re too focused on donors and not focused enough on working-class voters| Slow Boring
A recording from Matthew Yglesias and Jon Lovett's live video| Slow Boring
Plus private equity, lessons from Down Under, and George Eliot’s last book| Slow Boring
Autism diagnoses have increased because diagnostic practices changed.| Slow Boring
Trump’s rollback of fair-housing oversight meets a wave of local reinvention, from D.C. tenant law to Santa Barbara adaptive reuse.| Slow Boring
In 1903, Serbia got a new king with a new anti-Habsburg foreign policy and the world got a Great War.| www.slowboring.com
Sixty percent of Americans are not struggling to get by| www.slowboring.com
Liberals should respect our heritage; conservatives should see that our heritage is liberal| www.slowboring.com
Public transit is one of the safest ways to get around — it’s just too slow.| Slow Boring
Start-ups and traditional outlets test models for the future of journalism.| Slow Boring
How one state’s electorate flipped, and a couple questions for you| www.slowboring.com
It started before Covid, and it keeps getting worse.| www.slowboring.com
Also, why Colorado Democrats are so interesting and my Gen Z news diet| Slow Boring
The country’s economic strength increasingly depends on a privileged few.| www.slowboring.com
The rising prices of everyday items will likely cost both sides of the aisle.| www.slowboring.com
Plus: Weezer, Harvard dorms, social mobility, and the first female president| www.slowboring.com
Should there still be gatekeepers?| www.slowboring.com
A week in housing and a weekend of recommendations| www.slowboring.com
Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy. Click to read Slow Boring, by Matthew Yglesias, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.slowboring.com
My take on the ongoing U.B.I. wars| www.slowboring.com
Things are getting way better, but some big unanswered questions remain| 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
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
