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This is a hell of a thing to read.

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This gives me so much hope. I hope they can pull it off. My Country Is Showing America What’s Possible www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if he also fell asleep on the tanning bed?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

it's hard to keep track of all of the corruption in this administration. This is a handy list: Trump’s Biggest Beneficiary: Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

When you sell existing correlations as program evaluation.

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More incredible housing policy from ... Montana.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

If you kidnap and disappear a 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars. If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.

submitted 41 days ago • 269 comments

That's how you do it, folks

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Leader of the free lunch.

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

A date that will live in infamy

submitted 40 days ago • 67 comments

I suspect this is true, but I wonder if there's a success bias. Are people that work a series of menials soul crushing jobs getting asked for life advice?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Facial recognition software

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Come for the justice, stay for the gorgeous (Italianate?) facade.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

“He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.” That seems accurate!

submitted 42 days ago • 1434 comments

He literally could have just written a check and gotten the same results.

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The Anti-Woke Right Has a Lot to Answer For www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...

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From the archives: how much was history of economics still taught in US economics graduate programs in 1989. Are your students more creative and reflexive now that close to 0% of them are offered a class in history of economics? #econsky

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

The US Department of Transportation is significantly loosening crash reporting requirements, according to a new framework released today. It’s a boon for the automotive industry as a whole—and for Elon Musk’s Tesla in particular.

submitted 42 days ago • 66 comments

Call for papers for our Montreal meetings now live. Submission deadline 30th May.

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Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 43 days ago • 57 comments

This is an incredibly dangerous step: The President is going to personally direct the Attorney General to investigate (presumably criminally) the principal fundraising website for Democratic Party-affiliated candidates and organizations. Fundamentally antidemocratic. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

submitted 43 days ago • 79 comments

New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

submitted 43 days ago • 289 comments

#econ_ra

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Major stakeholders are in the dark about why certain products face tariffs and others don’t. Trump administration officials have given conflicting messages about the tariffs or have declined to answer questions at all. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 28 comments

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

submitted 43 days ago • 917 comments

I'd demand payment in full upfront. He has a reputation for stiffing his creditors.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Literally selling access. How is this legal?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

If six months ago you'd told me that in autumn 2025 I'd have to go to Canada to get my annual COVID vaccine but I wouldn't do it because coming back through immigrations was too risky for someone who had criticized the government, I would have looked at you like you were having a stroke.

submitted 44 days ago • 43 comments

"Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump

submitted 45 days ago • 45 comments