Is this the most costly policy to date? Not even close. But there is an, dare I say, elegance to the stupidity on display here that gives it a real claim to being the stupidesst policy yet.

Data from 1962 to 2014 and a new identification strategy show increased trade significantly reduces the probability and intensity of conflicts between nations, from Ling Feng, Qiuyue Huang, Zhiyuan Li, and Christopher M. Meissner www.nber.org/papers/w35078

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Exactly one year ago today:

My most conspirational archaeological belief is that the antiquity of humans in the Americas is subject to the Millikan oil drop experiment dynamic (see Feynman on this)

Is your suspicion that we radically underestimate the peak scale/pop of ancient civilization in the Americas because our priors are anchored to racially biased observations of societies quickly devastated by old world disease? If so, I am a co-conspirator.

It's really an indictment of the English soccer media that it took an American journalist 5000 miles away to write this piece, 18 months too late

(No shade on O'Hanlon, this is an excellent piece, just we've been screaming about this online for YEARS)

“I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence if ever…there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”

~Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on his 4/12/1945 tour of the Nazis’ Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Image: Eisenhower Pres. Library.

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

I know the answer to the broken culture of English football refereeing/deliberate injury/faking of injury isn't to introduce hockey-style fighting... but man, if we're not going to hand out red cards, the least we can do let someone punch them in the face

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

This is an appropriate statement.

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today

even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now

how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

At this point, an MOC or Senator who doesn’t vote to impeach and remove from office is complicit in war crimes and possibly genocide if he goes ahead with this.

Foreign students *subsidize* domestic students. Without them college will be *more* expensive and there will be *fewer* spots.

Reminder that Italy during autarchy sucked.

Wood was used in place of flour or coffee.

This was in 36-39, before ww2.

Most People would eat meat twice a year.

Globalization is good, any wretched form of purity/self-sufficiency kills.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Ah, so it is in fact even worse than it looks. Fan-tastic!

Diminishing marginal returns are critical here. If you are having precisely one nut, Cashews are the only S-Tier. However, if you are having a bowl of nuts, the fattiness leads to diminishing returns. At some point the lines cross, and almonds take the lead.

The actual AI problem in academic economics There is a steady flow of takes on the impact of AI on academic economics research, whether its the example of someone writing an ostensibly legitimate, if somewhat trite, research paper with only …

The immediate problem with AI in academic economics publishing isn't AI writing papers, it's AI writing referee reports for journals.

economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/03/30/t...

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I sort of love how many articles these days are "Here's a counterintuitive take - what if conventional economics is applicable to the modern world?"

Abandoned by America An Afghan family in hiding waits in fear and hope.

An Afghan asylum seeker hopes that “one day my children will live in a world that sees refugees not as a burden, but as human beings who survived the unimaginable.” George Packer tells her story:

This is why you have to wait a few decades to a make a "Death of Stalin"-style dark comedy. It's currently beyond parody, but given enough time it will seem too tragically silly to be real

the left nimby program in a nutshell

1: "decommodify housing"
2: sadly, no new housing is built
3: i inherit my parents' house

The top 1% most knowledgeable of the Spurs fanbase would be superior to the current manager. And that is a grave insult to what should ostensibly be an elite professional

“Everywhere I went in New York people openly loathed the very sight of me. So naturally I concluded that the entire city had gone crazy and I left. There was no other possible explanation.”

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.

Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.

Missed this when it came out a few months ago, but it's stunning reporting. Vividly captures how Trump and Miller have unleashed violence and chaos on these communities -- and how their lawless goons exact retribution on anyone who gets in their way, even unintentionally. Bovino should be in prison.