Matt Yglesias does an excellent job laying out the case against the “deaths of despair” narrative and putting it bluntly.  Over the past few years, Anne Case and Angus Deat… Read More

Writing at Vox in June 2016, liberal commentator Matt Yglesias argued that low-interest charges meant governments have been virtually obligated to borrow extra and run larger deficit… Read More

Despite being one of Latin America’s poorest countries in the mid-1960s, the Dominican Republic has made remarkable progress in terms of income convergence… What is remarkable… Read More

President Biden and his surrogates have been taking a victory lap, celebrating the administration’s financial accomplishments and “Bidenomics,” a media invention that the… Read More

Elon Musk talks a big game about freedom of expression. The billionaire refers to himself as a “free speech absolutist,” and spent the last year making bold promises about undoin… Read More

Bluesky, the decentralized social network and frontrunner alternative to Twitter, has been hailed as a wonderland of funny posts and good vibes. But a moderation policy change that followed… Read More

But in the premium bond idea, the government would renew old, expiring bonds at higher coupon rates. Doing so would not technically add to the nation’s debt — if the government… Read More

A new report by the Platformer is shedding light on Twitter’s recent decision to motivate VIP users of the app to post more. We are definitely not surprised by the decision that Elon M… Read More

Welcome to the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Newsletter. In this issue, tracking recycled sneakers; Optimus vs. bullies; MoLo shake-up and more. AirTags track “recycled” sneakers Rea… Read More

EssayServiceProf.com Thrilled MLK Day! The markets are closed, but the flow never stops. Contextualize the news with our 3-day weekend readings: • The demise of the success-driven… Read More

THIS Is What’s Holding Our Country Together | With Matthew Yglesias Ben Shapiro and Matthew Yglesias get together to discuss the state of the country how we can be more unified. Watc… Read More

I put the "no really" in scare quotes because, no, really, they're not, or at a minimum, there's no proof that they are, outside the obvious way, in which if you're parents with kids and wan… Read More

The Guardians of Free Speech Because of the social media circus surrounding the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial, it was easy to overlook one of the principal—yet least likel… Read More

There is dissension in the ranks at Vox, the far-left opinion website, with co-founders Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein seemingly clashing over the former’s decision to sign the H… Read More

"Society has a spot problem," Substack co-founders Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi declared successful a associated connection precocious… Read More

“I think digital media has become less friendly to trouble makers,” Matt Yglesias told Ben Domenech on The Federalist Radio Hour. The post Matthew Yglesias On How Writers Are Ada… Read More

Parents who want a say in their children’s education are like passengers who think they should fly the plane, suggested a Georgetown political science professor, Don Moynihan, on Twitt… Read More

First, I have never understood what the difference is between Substack and, say, Patreon, other than Substack being newer, theoretically cooler for the new James Dean type rebels without a… Read More

I had wondered if this was why I hadn't seen him in two months, and I didn't investigate."Curmudgeonly sage" Jim Schutze is a COVID casualty at the Dallas Observer. Not meaning to go all Dan… Read More

-- Lincoln Chafee, from the Libertarian Party presidential primary. (That wasn't the news you've been mourning/celebrating?)When Hillary Clinton dropped out of the presidential race in 2008… Read More