5+ hour, 48+ min ago  (840+ words) The Supreme Court formally rejected affirmative action in college admissions in the 2023 case of Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard, but the legal case did not resolve the larger dispute in American society or necessarily end schools" efforts to manipulate…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago  (382+ words) Mark Mills writes in City Journal that the economic chaos unleashed by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz should teach environmentalists that they are underestimating the indispensability of oil and gas to the world economy. That take is not…...

18+ hour, 28+ min ago  (66+ words) Build, baby, build'Slow Boring The YIMBYs were right. The YIMBYs have something to celebrate: Data from March provides new evidence that building housing reduces costs. Last month, the Pew Charitable Trusts published a detailed analysis of Austin's housing boom and…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (790+ words) I have no particular desire to add to the Lindy West Discourse, 1 but one thing I've noted watching it play out is that the #girlboss is catching a lot of strays. West is a millennial and was a writer for…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (324+ words) I like to think that I have generally moderate, even-tempered views. I'm trying to do this in the spirit of "views that actual left-wing people and institutions support" rather than a kind of abstract semi-trolling opinion where I'm saying that…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (87+ words) Slow Boring The midterms in motion Early advantages are emerging, but so are the constraints that could blunt them. Midterm season is fully upon us, meaning that some things are becoming more clear while in other domains there is a…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (294+ words) Slow Boring Journalists should use A. I. more Increasing productivity is good, actually There was some discourse about the use of A. I. in journalism recently, and while I think there are obvious downsides to anyone outsourcing too much thinking to computers, I want…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (92+ words) Slow Boring 11 jobs that (probably) won't be taken by A. I. Who will survive the A. I. apocalypse? I don't mean to be an alarmist, but signs of the A. I. apocalypse are everywhere. Oracle this week started laying thousands of employees off as the company…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1222+ words) Something that I continue to hear not only from MAGA types but also from progressives with ties to industrial labor unions is that economists discredited themselves with doomsday Liberation Day predictions that didn't come true. Swami: What should blue states…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (199+ words) Axios ran a story over the weekend making explicit what I think has been implicit in a lot of Democrats" thinking about the 2028 presidential election: the idea that the best way to win is to nominate "a straight white Christian…...