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Pod Your Way — 1853 episodes
Money Stuff: The Podcast: Humiliation Ritual
Money Stuff: Buy Bitcoin at Night
The Biggest Hope for Curing Autoimmune Disease | Matter
This founder helped build SpaceX's most powerful rocket engine. Now he's building a 'fighter jet for orbit' | TechCrunch
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements | TechCrunch
Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine | TechCrunch
Iran ceasefire: The soft TACO theory of when Trump chickens out | Vox
The Trump administration’s logging push and its impact, explained | Vox
Helium Is Hard to Replace
What Trump Got Right in Venezuela - The Atlantic
Salarymen, specialists, and small businesses
Information and Technological Evolution
Information and Technological Evolution
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun - The New York Times
Speed Can Reindustrialize America - Austin Vernon's Blog
On AI and Children - by Dean W. Ball - Hyperdimensional
From the vault: The failure of the land value tax
Should We Have Kept The American Empire?
Complete Streets in Name Only: How Federal Transportation Policy Undermines Local Outcomes | Strong Towns
Housing Development Plans Get Wrecked by Congress - Bloomberg
The ENU Exchange
Money Stuff: Private Assets Are Coming to 401(k)s
Opinion | Don’t Cheer Too Hard for the Facebook Verdicts - The New York Times
How to navigate social situations when everyone knows each other | Vox
Fungible Factories - by Ben Reinhardt - Spectech Newsletter
Is private school terrible?
Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Austin Vernon's Blog
Carbon Capture Technology Is Helping This Pub Make Beer - The New York Times
The Agony of Texting With Men - The Atlantic
Are They Still Your Friends if You Never See Them? - The Atlantic
The Friend-Group Fallacy - The Atlantic
Escaping the Ogallala trap
The Age of the Amplifier - by Brian Potter
Fungible Factories - by Ben Reinhardt - Spectech Newsletter
Money Stuff: The Podcast: Also Sticky
Not written by AI
Money Stuff: Weather Prediction Prediction
Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars - Ars Technica
AI has the worst sales pitch I've ever seen - by Noah Smith
The Rust Belt Ricochet? - by Pete Saunders
Who will program manage the program managers?
As we may vibe - by Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress
What Street Design Has to Do With the Housing Shortage | Strong Towns
The economic consequences of the Iran war - by Noah Smith
Money Stuff: Private Credit Has Some Debt
The umpire is dead
Money Stuff: Private Credit Is Not on Sale
Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right? - Ars Technica
Money Stuff: Elon Did Some Securities Fraud
A Second Industrial Enlightenment - by Chris Walker
A State-Level Housing Intervention I Support | Strong Towns
The Revenge of Flyover Country - The Atlantic
Paraguay: Why a Little-Known Trump Ally Is Attracting Investor Money - Bloomberg
Which type of meaning-seeker are you?
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?
Fossil fuels are food
Opinion | Can Military Excellence Save Us From Trump’s Incompetence? - The New York Times
Money Stuff: The Podcast: Boaz Weinstein
How Much Computing Power is in a Data Center?
Save us, Digital Cronkite!
There’s no Such Thing as Overtourism | Pedestrian Observations
The Repricing of Time: Equity in the Age of Agents
The Shape of the Thing
Against Land Value Capture
Money Stuff: Tokens Are Not Securities
The best plant-based milk, cheese, and ice cream
Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done - The Atlantic
Shameless Guesses, Not Hallucinations - by Scott Alexander
Money Stuff: Anti-Private Equity Is Good Business
Why Silicon Valley hasn’t done more for most Americans
Money Stuff: Make the Predictions Come True
The Chronology Problem - by Jim Olds - sciencepolicyinsider
The Cost-Benefit State Is Not Flourishing
AI is here. Should you become a plumber?
Money Stuff: The Podcast: Man Not Bird
How to Bring Starter Homes Back From Extinction - Bloomberg
A brutal year for medical research, in one chart
The Elusive Cost Savings of the Prefabricated Home
Fwd: This Is The U.S.'s Last Chance At Solar
Money Stuff: Lever the Predictions
Fwd: Money Stuff: Bill Ackman Wants Your Money Again
Fwd: Money Stuff: Private Credit Gets Marked Down
Are we in the foothills of World War 3?
A.O.C. is not the problem - by Matthew Yglesias
Money Stuff: BlackRock Guards the Gates
Money Stuff: Be Liquid When Others Are Illiquid
Money Stuff: People Are Worried About BCRED Liquidity
Money Stuff: Everyone Wants a Pension
Money Stuff: War Markets Have Some Bugs
The Verge
A History of Operation Breakthrough - by Brian Potter
The Glaring Oversight in the U.S. War Plan - The Atlantic
Baby boomers are aging fast. Adult day care can help their caregivers. | Vox
If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
Opinion | Putin’s Ukraine War negotiations rest on a lie and a bluff - The Washington Post
Democrats need to think bigger on utilities
Solar in poor countries is creating a huge lead hazard
Japan can be America's arsenal
Superintelligence is already here, today - by Noah Smith
Democrats weigh Trump school vouchers, with billions at stake - The Washington Post
Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination - The Atlantic
Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles - The New York Times
Data centres in space: less crazy than you think
The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack - The Atlantic
Opinion | War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man - The New York Times
Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: The DOGE Doubt Trade
Money Stuff: Kalshi Found Some Insider Traders
Money Stuff: AI Can Manage Your Mutual Fund
Money Stuff: People Are Worried About Blue Owl Liquidity
Presidential democracy was a mistake - by Matthew Yglesias
Ukraine is scaling up interceptor drones
What the Roberts Court Is Actually Trying to Accomplish - The Atlantic
High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone - The Atlantic
Opinion | Here’s What I Just Figured Out About the Way Trump Talks - The New York Times
The case for workplace inefficiency
The Paperwork Problem Behind the Housing Shortage | Strong Towns
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
Opinion | What the American Right Wants From Europe - The New York Times
Height Surgery for Men Can Add Inches But Has Risks - The New York Times
Bringing the "functionally extinct" American chestnut back from the dead - Ars Technica
Money Stuff: Insider Trading on War
Opinion | This space-based technology could revolutionize the electrical grid - The Washington Post
Building Cities from Scratch - The New York Times
Can Germany rearm its way to growth?
Trends in US Construction Productivity - by Brian Potter
Money Stuff: The AI Whateverpocalypse Trade
Money Stuff: Bond Trading Gets Cheaper
Money Stuff: Predicting the Big Game
The Fertility Problem Is Getting Worse with Time
Astronomers Are Closing In on the Kuiper Belt’s Secrets | WIRED
Chasing Counter Seasonality - by Rhishi Pethe
Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time
Russia’s sabotage campaign is becoming bolder
Tacit Knowledge and the SaaSpocalypse - by Chris Walker
The Housing Debate Is Finally Catching Up to Reality | Strong Towns
The Takaichi Era begins for real
Can You Live Forever? Or Is It Just a Fantasy? - Bloomberg
How writing about nineteenth-century cities changed my mind
COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions - Ars Technica
Money Stuff: Five Bananas Won’t Pay the Rent
Money Stuff: Cracking Open the DATs
Money Stuff: Musk’s Moonshot Merger
Britain’s police reforms are a step in the right direction
Why clinical trials are inefficient. And why it matters.
At Last, Hydrofoils - by Andrew Miller - Changing Lanes
A Novel Way To Approach Greater Housing Density
The Impact Fee Illusion | Strong Towns
What a liberal immigration enforcement policy might look like
The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber
Inflatable space stations - Works in Progress Magazine
Money Stuff: Musk Mars Merger, Maybe
US health insurance costs keep rising — opening the door for the next big reform effort | Vox
Supernatural was a breakout VR fitness sensation — meet the women furious with Mark Zuckerberg for killing it | The Verge
Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them - Ars Technica
Tesla throws in the towel on car sales | The Verge
The Army Just Unveiled Its Latest Tank. Will It Be the Last? - The New York Times
Opinion | Trump’s Lies Have a Purpose - The New York Times
Money Stuff: First Brands Did Some Round Trips
On Technologies vs. Commodities - by Brian Potter
How big a threat is AI to entry-level jobs?
The fate of Japan’s $6trn foreign portfolio rattles global markets
It is possible, but should it be done?
Money Stuff: The Stars Are Aligned for SpaceX
Opinion | U.S. Arctic security lies in Alaska, not Greenland - The Washington Post
“Corporate power” doesn’t mean anything
Money Stuff: The Killer Non-Acquisition
Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
Opinion | ‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe’: Three Columnists on the Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Private Credit Marks Will Matter
A turning point in Minnesota - by Matthew Yglesias
Money Stuff: FTX Does Some Effective Altruism
Do Commodities Get Cheaper Over Time? - by Brian Potter
Let's save the human species! - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Robot butlers look more like Roombas than Rosey from the Jetsons | Vox
Money Stuff: Moonshot Pay Kind of Works
Money Stuff: Memecoin Venture Capital
Does software piracy exist?: Matthew Butterick
Zero-sum economics keeps failing - by Noah Smith
How to Prevent Aging Parents and Relatives from Making Financial Mistakes - The New York Times
Opinion | Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era - The New York Times
Trapped in the hell of social comparison - by Noah Smith
Astral Codex Ten
Framework for a Hypercapable World - by Eric Drexler
Money Stuff: Stablecoin Narrow Banking
How to tame a complex system - by Jason Crawford
British Construction Costs and Centralization | Pedestrian Observations
Europe’s farmers no longer rule the roost unchallenged
Europe has three options for defending Greenland
Innovations in energy and finance are further inflating the AI bubble
The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
Money Stuff: Wall Street Wants Predictors
What ChatGPT Health can actually tell you — and what it can’t | Vox
Money Stuff: Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading
The Saudi Pivot - by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
The end of flu is closer than you think, and this bad season shows why | Vox
How ICE Lost Its Guardrails - The Atlantic
The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: Paramount Wants to Warner to Show Its Work
UK and EU Can Negotiate Their Way to Smarter Post-Brexit Union - Bloomberg
Exclusive: Fridge Magnet Medicine - by Eryney Marrogi
Using generative AI to learn is like Odysseus untying himself from the mast
Sidewalk Repair is State Capacity | Strong Towns
Claude Code and What Comes Next - by Ethan Mollick
Money Stuff: MoviePass Is Back With Betting
How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
A Russian drone has revived a Ukrainian nuclear nightmare
Money Stuff: The AI Will Vote the Shares
The “ChatGPT moment” has arrived for manufacturing | The Economist
Exclusive: A New Way To Study The Miracle Of Life
Persuasion of Humans Is the Bottleneck - by Erik Schiskin
Money Stuff: Predict Your House Price
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing - The Atlantic
Trump’s FAFO Doctrine - The Atlantic
Opinion | Being American Means Never Having to Learn From History - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Everybody Wants Some AI Debt
An AI revolution in drugmaking is under way
25 thoughts on Venezuelan regime change - by Ben
2025 letter | Dan Wang
America's chip export controls are working - by Noah Smith
Notes on Taiwan - by Sam Enright - The Fitzwilliam
Epicycles All The Way Down - by Rohit Krishnan
Will money still exist in the agentic economy?
Fix Your Gut Health Forever by Thinking About Ice Cream
Why do they think the right brain / left brain thing is a myth?
Trump vs. Musk: Why Democracies Can’t Stop Eating Themselves
Coordination Problems: Why Smart People Can't Fix Anything
The Housing Market Is Moving in Favor of Gen Z - Bloomberg
A Swedish startup wants to reignite Europe’s explosives industry
What flying cars, quantum computing and fusion have in common
How to export life to Mars
Why Everyone Loves Japan - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Presenting the Case That the Future Will Be Unrecognizable
How Accurate Are Learning Curves? - by Brian Potter
Why Europe should resist the Second China Shock
Opinion | 3 Theories for Why G.D.P. Is Up but Job Growth Is Slowing - The New York Times
The government needs an infrastructure plan
Opinion | Putin, Russia aren’t winning the war in Ukraine - The Washington Post
Money Stuff: Trump Media Discovers Nuclear Fusion
The Real Reason Safe Routes to School Can’t Keep Up | Strong Towns
How to conduct a job interview
I think India can do it - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Democrats should try to win in Florida
Money Stuff: Warner Doesn’t Trust Paramount
Ukraine scrabbles for handholds against Russia’s massive assault
Money Stuff: Fake Trading Is Hard Work
Job apocalypse? Humbug! AI is creating brand new occupations
Talking myself into a Netflix-Warner merger
Money Stuff: The Video of Dumb Investment
Money Stuff: A Stock Price Is Not a Prediction
Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem
Money Stuff: The Warner Deal Will Take a While
Money Stuff: Private Indices Are the New Public Indices
The AI bust scenario that no one is talking about
Money Stuff: A Bidding War for Warner Bros.
A bolder vision for American energy - by Matthew Yglesias
Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms? - The New York Times
Imagining pro-growth urbanism - by Matthew Yglesias
Money Stuff: Buy Low, Sell to Yourself
You can afford a tradlife - by Matthew Yglesias
China has invented a whole new way to do innovation
The holy grail of capitalism
Money Stuff: Can the Lenders Stick Together?
The Works in Progress Newsletter
America's mayors are right to support small business
Money Stuff: AI Can Steal Crypto Now
Money Stuff: OpenAI Will Own Some Users
Noahpinion's 2025 Year in Review - by Noah Smith
I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? - by Noah Smith
Exclusive | ‘We Do Fail … a Lot’: Defense Startup Anduril Hits Setbacks With Weapons Tech - WSJ
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
How Microsoft’s developers are using AI | The Verge
A new way to generate electricity from water
How a Government Think Tank Trained The First Generation of US Software Developers
Money Stuff: Take the Crypto Out of the Indexes
Who will win the trillion-dollar robotaxi race?
Money Stuff: Leave the Gold in the Ground
Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation - The New York Times
Opinion | America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart - The New York Times
Retiring Before (or After) Your Partner? How to Navigate Money Issues - The New York Times
River boats are returning Thames transport to Tudor times | The Economist
Should adults take colostrum supplements?
Living in artificial gravity
A City Is Broke. Can a Billionaire’s Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance? - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Predict the Sneakers
The future of war is the future of society - by Noah Smith
A better way to look for signs of ancient biology
Geothermal kit can help make the power grid flexible
Money Stuff: Fine, Trade Labubu Futures
Affordability means hard choices - by Matthew Yglesias
Geothermal’s time has finally come | The Economist
Money Stuff: The SEC Opposes Shareholder Proposals
Opinion | Here’s What Trump Should Actually Do for Fertility - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Private Markets Are the New Securities Fraud
Do women need testosterone supplements?
Eurocope - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Money Stuff: Blackstone Is for Everyone
What Is A Production Process? - by Brian Potter
Giving your AI a Job Interview
Money Stuff: How Should Shareholders Vote?
Money Stuff: The Hedge Funds Are Hiring
Money Stuff: Opendoor Did Some Warrants
Merck PCSK9 Pill Results Point to Extremely Low Cholesterol Future - The New York Times
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy - The New York Times
America’s furniture-makers exemplify the folly of tariffs
Strap Rail - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics
Money Stuff: Elon Wants His Votes
Opinion | What Conservatives Should Do About Nick Fuentes - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Hedge Fund Charged Clients for Art
Money Stuff: First Brands Found Some Fake Invoices
Money Stuff: Coinbase Said Web3
Opinion | Why Trump Can Do No Wrong - The New York Times
Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me - The New York Times
Retirees, Get Ready to Need Long-Term Care. Here’s What to Know. - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Pay Now, Merge Later
A Welsh startup wants to make semiconductors in space
The Case for a Technocratic Doge - by Paul Melman
There is No Meritocracy Without Lottocracy - by Paul Melman
Health insurance premiums are going up in 2026. What the heck is going on? | Vox
Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites
Money Stuff: Put the Data Center in the Box
Economic ideas for Takaichi Sanae - by Noah Smith
Khosla-backed Mazama taps super-hot rocks in race to deliver 24/7 power | TechCrunch
The Obesity-Drug Revolution Is Stalling - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: All Public Companies Are Alike
How the UK Lost Its Shipbuilding Industry
Money Stuff: The Tariff Refund Trade
Women’s professional rise is good, actually
Can the Golden Age of Costco Last? | The New Yorker
China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far
The Shutdown Is a Knife at a Gunfight - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: The FBI Found Some Insider Betting
How a 30-Minute Appointment Can Open the Door for Local Investment | Strong Towns
California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime - Ars Technica
American big business faces a $1trn capex question
Sports leagues find that streaming pirates have their purposes
OpenAI and Anthropic v app developers: tech’s Cronos syndrome
Western drones are underwhelming on the Ukrainian battlefield
China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration
Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
Why I’m Not Freaking Out About My Students Using AI - The Atlantic
Screen Time Does Not Exist - The Atlantic
How to make immigration palatable in a populist age
This Ohio City Didn’t Wait for a Miracle — It Made One Instead | Strong Towns
Money Stuff: Banks Make Loans to Non-Banks
Should we worry about AI's circular deals? - by Noah Smith
China’s chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America’s limits
Why are American women leaving the labour force?
Money Stuff: OpenAI Is Building a Banker
Why automated metros are the future - by Benjamin Schneider
Money Stuff: Banks Misplaced Some Mortgages
Savage drone warfare engulfs Ukraine’s front line
Can bright light banish winter depression?
Money Stuff: Nothing Is Securities Fraud?
Grid operators in the Baltics and Poland are preparing for Russian attacks
People Are Using AI to Cheat in Job Interviews - The Atlantic
The high costs of Spain’s renewables revolution
The new economics of babymaking
The icy cold war America is busy losing | The Economist
Money Stuff: OpenAI Has a Business Plan
Money Stuff: Venture Global’s Gas Plant Is Done
China Can't Win - by Alexander Campbell - Campbell Ramble
AI Will Not Make You Rich - Colossus
Opinion | We Long for Community. Why Do So Few of Us Try to Build It? - The New York Times
The New Think Tank Infuriating Progressives - The Atlantic
The rise and fall of cognitive fitness - by Brink Lindsey
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now - The Atlantic
Putin Is Not Winning - The Atlantic
On Seriousness - by Daniel Goodwin - Punk Rock Bio
Money Stuff: OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals
Thoughts on “The Slumless City” - by Pete Saunders
Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive - The New York Times
Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials - The New York Times
Fascism Can't Mean Both A Specific Ideology And A Legitimate Target
America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
Georgia 2026 Elections Will Test Whether Voters Still Cross Party Lines - Bloomberg
Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok - The Atlantic
Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy | WIRED
The authoritarian menace has arrived - by Matthew Yglesias
A Water Company Debt Crisis in the United Kingdom
Supreme Court Conversion Therapy Speech Ruling Could Undermine Free Speech - Bloomberg
The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones - The New York Times
Money Stuff: First Brands Is Missing Some Money
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
Money Stuff: AI Insurance Is Expensive
Opinion | An Ideological Revolution Needs 12 Years in Power - The New York Times
Ukraine Might Be Winning Its War of Attrition - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: Sports Bets at the Stock Exchange
The everything recession
Money Stuff: OpenAI Is Good at Deals
We need to talk about ‘missing massive’ housing
How Rockefeller and His Partners Built Standard Oil - Austin Vernon's Blog
Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis
how-ai-accelerates-materials-discovery
Congress Should Fix Obamacare Subsidies, Not Fight Over Them - Bloomberg
Money Stuff: Stablecoins Make Banking Narrower
Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances | Space | The Guardian
How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up - Ars Technica
The chilling exception to Trumpian protectionism
Money Stuff: Parlay the Predictions
Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up - The New York Times
Seventeen thoughts on the government shutdown
Slow Boring
Network State, or a Network of States? - by Noah Smith
The Race to Figure Out Why More Young People Are Getting Cancer - The New York Times
The economics of self-driving taxis
Money Stuff: Hedge Funds Have To Be Big
‘If I work harder, will you love me?’
Money Stuff: The Perfect AI Startup
Russia is violating Europe’s skies with impunity
Opinion | Why Comey Should Not Have Been Indicted, According to Trump - The New York Times
What if local control can actually help build housing?
The Comey Indictment Is Not Just Payback - The Atlantic
Could These Eye Drops End the Need for Reading Glasses? | WIRED
Local Advocates Just Drove Bloomington's Biggest Housing Breakthrough in 10 Years | Strong Towns
Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare
The Only Right Way to Ask for an Intro (Everything Else Is Wrong)
Money Stuff: Quantum Bond Trading
How AI is changing the office
Novo Nordisk v Eli Lilly: return of the weight-loss wars
agents vs clouds
Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration
How Common Is Accidental Invention? - by Brian Potter
Human Drivers Will Kill 11 People While You Read This
The dangerous war on Tylenol - by Matthew Yglesias
Money Stuff: There Was a RadioShack Ponzi
Money Stuff: Private Equity Is Getting Boring
Why every country needs to master the Electric Tech Stack
Trump is getting closer to having an ‘infinite money pit’
Money Stuff: Bitcoin Treasury Company M&A
Opinion | Democrats Are Picking the Wrong Shutdown Fight - The New York Times
American students are getting dumber - by Matthew Yglesias
New Mexico is the first state to pay for free universal child care - The Washington Post
CEO Belief in AI Is Causing Indifference to Trump Policies - Bloomberg
Without free speech, America is nothing - by Noah Smith
The death rays that guard life - Works in Progress Magazine
AK or just okay? AI and economic growth
The $4trn accounting puzzle at the heart of the AI cloud
Money Stuff: Stocks for the Long Run
What’s Happening to Wholesale Electricity Prices?
Trump’s formula to conquer the economy
Money Stuff: Don’t Take the Auditor to the Strip Club
Good cities can't exist without public order
Money Stuff: Insider Trading Is Not About Fairness
Money Stuff: Elon Musk Bought Some Stock
Driverless Cars Really Don't Need Anyone Behind the Wheel - Bloomberg
NASA has found a Martian rock with what may be signs of life
How to build table-top fusion reactors
Fixing Britain’s broken property-tax system will take courage
Remote Work: Where Is It Most Common in the US? - Bloomberg
Social Security retirement age: How to raise it without hurting poor people | Vox
Money Stuff: Memes Can Be Good for Business
Money Stuff: Everyone Wants a Wounded Lion
Russia Is Losing the War—Just Not to Ukraine - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: Stablecoin Treasury Company
The Globalists of MAGA - The Atlantic
Are Westerners turning back into medieval peasants?
The job market is hell
Money Stuff: Bill Ackman Has a Trade for Eric Adams
Opinion | It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is - The New York Times
Why nuclear is now a booming industry
Healthcare Can Be Saved With a Government Shutdown - Bloomberg
Why “Moneyball” worked while DOGE failed
A boring theory of the populist right
America is getting the economy we voted for
Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper
Money Stuff: Private Assets Need Public Buyers
Money Stuff: Sports Team Owners Like to Win
Yes, cash transfers work
Money Stuff: The Tariffs Are Still Illegal
What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Kid’s Friends - The Atlantic
AI and jobs, again - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
When Will Robots Go Mainstream? - Colossus
The Amusement Park for Engineers - Colossus
Are We Underestimating How AI Will Change Private Markets? - Colossus
Money Stuff: Pod Shops Are the New Banks
Money Stuff: The Taylor Swift Wedding Trade
Donald Trump, friend of the EV?
The wrong way to end a war
Money Stuff: Biotech Dividend Arrived Early
Opinion | Opinion: The Only Real Solution to the AI College Cheating Crisis - The New York Times
Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane
Can’t focus? You might be cognitively overloaded. | Vox
In Search Of AI Psychosis - by Scott Alexander
The mother of all tax loopholes
Trump Is Sending a Clear Message - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: There Are a Lot of ETFs
In some ways, rural Britain is changing faster than its cities
The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US) | The Verge
Opinion | One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems - The New York Times
How Does the US Use Water? - by Brian Potter
Moderation is good for its own sake - by Noah Smith
A warning sign for America about Trump’s personalist rule
Opinion | A.I. May Just Be Kind of Ordinary - The New York Times
The green transition has a surprising new home
To survive, Intel must break itself apart
Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa
How To Make Your City Stronger With 4 Hours and a Shovel
After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon - Ars Technica
How AI-enhanced hackers are stealing billions
Predicting our own demise | Reducible Errors
Aalo Atomics raises $100M to build a microreactor and data center together | TechCrunch
Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV - Austin Vernon's Blog
Expanding the Universal Marginal Energy Source
Gangs are using increasingly sophisticated kit to steal cars
Putin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress belt
Opinion | European leaders can do what Trump won’t do to stop Putin - The Washington Post
The logic of the ‘9 to 5’ is creeping into the rest of the day
The Pull—And the Risks—Of Intensive Parenting - The Atlantic
While China Builds, America Litigates - The Atlantic
How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession | WIRED
This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College - The Atlantic
Should you use a standing desk?
America has only one real city - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere - Ars Technica
The Hollow Symbolism of Recognizing Palestine - The Atlantic
A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building
What ‘5 to 9’ Videos Say About Americans and Leisure - The Atlantic
Trump’s awful turn against mRNA vaccine research
Corporations aren't the reason your rent is too high
One way parents can fight the phone-based childhood
Trump, Putin and the future of Ukraine
SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO.
America’s housing market is shuddering
Our Beautiful Nuclear Future on the Moon - The Atlantic
Kennedy’s Crusade Against Food Safety Rule Threatens Supplement Industry - The New York Times
Opinion | Seed Oils Are Fine, Really - The New York Times
MAGA’s war on the American economy
Group Technology, the Forgotten Cousin of Lean Manufacturing
Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why
The Stock Market Is Getting Hard to Explain - The Atlantic
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff - by Ethan Mollick
Money Stuff: 401(k) Plans Will Get More Fun
McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two
Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life
An economist’s guide to big life decisions
Fraudulent scientific papers are booming
Microphones can spot radar-evading hypersonic missiles
Texas Gerrymandering Gambit Should Spur Congress to Act - Bloomberg
Money Stuff: OpenAI Employees Have Stock to Sell
Money Stuff: Hedge Funds Meet With Companies
Trump’s new strategy to improve the economic numbers
Money Stuff: Tesla Gives Musk Some Stock
What can India do to industrialize? - by Noah Smith
Will data centers crash the economy?
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
Affordable Housing: A Ray of Hope Emerges in Washington - Bloomberg
Opinion | The Point: Conversations and insights about the moment. - The New York Times
Opinion | Israel Must Open Its Eyes - The New York Times
Can interceptor drones stop Russia’s terror bombing?
Why does everyone still hate the Democrats?
Scientists are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life - The New York Times
Money Stuff: You Can Insider Trade NFTs Now
Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Rewrite Reality - The New York Times
Scientists want to sequence all animals, fungi and plants on Earth
Money Stuff: The Bots Will Work Together
Indonesia Climbs the Chain - by Oliver Kim
The Boring AI Questions That Actually Matter
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Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back
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Parents are gaming their kids’ credit scores
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This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets | WIRED
How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power
The power of a single-issue group - by Matthew Yglesias
Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It. - The Atlantic
MAGA doesn't build anything - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
America's AI Action Plan Is Pretty Good - by Zvi Mowshowitz
Repairing the tax code after Trump - by Matthew Yglesias
What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism? - by Noah Smith
Money Stuff: Strategy Does a Stretch
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Money Stuff: Meme Stocks Are Back
The Democratic Pendulum - The Atlantic
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AI's Trillion Dollar Cyber Opportunity
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‘Success addicts’ choose being special over being happy
In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods? | The New Yorker
The Mistake Parents Make With Chores - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: Private Research Is the New Public Research
Who Is Behind a $5 Billion Development in Atlanta? Yup, a Sports Team. - The New York Times
Bipartisan Outrage Over Epstein Is Just What America Needs - Bloomberg
An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How. - The New York Times
How China Became the World’s Biggest Shipbuilder
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Only a big tent can maximize the OBBBA opportunity
Money Stuff: Put the Crypto in the Index Funds
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Developing countries: A follow-up - by Noah Smith
Free-market economics is working surprisingly well
Against "Brain Damage" - by Ethan Mollick
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Are Volcanoes a Risk to Solar Dominated Grids? - Austin Vernon's Blog
Money Stuff: Everyone Wants a Bitcoin Treasury
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Should you take creatine?
British labour is a bargain
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How to Build the Perfect City
Using Radical Common Sense To Build Great Places, With Steve Nygren
The Top 3 Questions About Abundance and the Strong Towns Approach
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Opinion | Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts - The New York Times
Iran Strikes: US Military, Pentagon Is More Strained Than It Looks - Bloomberg
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life - The Atlantic
Welcome to the Mafia Presidency - The Atlantic
Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it
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Money Stuff: AI Is Bad at Snacks
The Phoniest Job in Trump World - The Atlantic
Exclusive | Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses - WSJ
Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors
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Money Stuff: The Stocks Will Be Tokenized
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The whole country is starting to look like California
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Presidential luck - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring
Money Stuff: Anyone Can Sell You SpaceX Stock
A defence splurge will slow Europe’s deindustrialisation
Germany is embarking on an almighty borrowing binge
Ukraine is inching towards robot-on-robot fighting
Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Why Are Homes in Western States So Expensive?
The Weapon That Terrorizes Ukrainians by Night - The New York Times
Raising taxes is hard - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring
Money Stuff: You Can’t Exactly Buy Stock in Athletes
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This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing | WIRED
Britain’s industrial strategy is unlikely to boost its economy
Money Stuff: Malaysian Fryer Oil Arbitrage
Cutting Medicaid Is the Issue That Can Damage Republicans the Most - Bloomberg
Right Move, Wrong Team - The Atlantic
How Tehran Might Be Playing Trump - The Atlantic
Biotech is coming to Wales
A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite | WIRED
More Lore of the World - by Erik Hoel
The Democrats must confront their gerontocracy
Trump’s Trade School Idea Is a $3 Billion Bipartisan Winner - Bloomberg
China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem
Yoshua Bengio is redesigning AI safety at LawZero | Vox
Western democracies are actually pretty good at war
Batteries Are Making the Electrical Grid More Reliable
Blue state Republicans are the problem
Money Stuff: Lawyers Are Mad About SALT
Trump rediscovers comprehensive immigration reform
Money Stuff: It's Not Gambling, It's Predicting
Scientists Discover the Key to Axolotls’ Ability to Regenerate Limbs | WIRED
Money Stuff: There’s a Tron Treasury Company
Social media destroyed one of America's key advantages
It's OK not to be fat - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy
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Money Stuff: High-Speed Traders Slow Down
New York is not a democracy
Trump's "beautiful" bill wrecks our energy future
The economic lessons from Ukraine’s spectacular drone success
A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health
Why Trump Is Losing His Trade War - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: The Appraisal Trade Is Back
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Averting a Worst-Case Scenario in Los Angeles - The Atlantic
Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Bankruptcy Was Good for 23andMe
(1) In the Light of Victory, He Himself Shall Disappear
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Money Stuff: Whose Money Should You Manage?
Yes, DOGE failed — and it matters - by Matthew Yglesias
An abundance agenda for antitrust policy
Grading for Equity: Students Need More Challenges, Not Fewer Tests - Bloomberg
The No. 1 Rule for Understanding Trump - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: The Fannie and Freddie Stakes Are High
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Bayes For Everyone - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd
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Leaning into our Humanity in the Age of AI (Part 1)
A Market-Driven Approach to AI and Workforce Transformation (Part 2)
Service costs aren't exploding anymore - by Noah Smith
Opinion | The Democrats’ 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem - The New York Times
Computers of the future - by Rodolfo Rosini
Money Stuff: The Tariffs Are Illegal
Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV? - by Brian Potter
Politicians need to take AI progress seriously
The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: Fannie and Freddie Get a Guarantee
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The Era of Thrash - The Atlantic
GOP Budget Bill: Moderate House Republicans Caved Again - Bloomberg
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Democrats should care less about demographics
Animals as chemical factories
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So long, EV tax credits | The Verge
House GOP moves to slash renewable energy tax breaks | The Verge
Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding
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Trump’s plan to cap drug prices doesn’t exist
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Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla Hayden - The New York Times
Group wants to break two-party system by running independents in House - The Washington Post
Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045 - The New York Times
Money Stuff: Mortgage Your 401(k)
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How ships escaped the great stagnation
The Trump Trade-War Scam - The Atlantic
Money Stuff: Is Murder Securities Fraud?
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A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era - The New York Times
New drones are sneaking past jammers on Ukraine’s front lines
Trump's Plan for Federal Buildings Could Help Bridge an Architectural Divide - Bloomberg
Opinion | Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable - The New York Times
Democrats Should Offer an Alternative to the Republican Budget - Bloomberg
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Why didn't anyone predict the American pope?
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Doubling down on climate won't win the Senate
Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class
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Why Gen X is the real loser generation
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Money Stuff: Medicaid Taxes Pay for Themselves
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A new laser device could prevent pandemics, diseases, bird flu in mid-air | Vox
An 80,000-year history of the tomato - by Evan DeTurk
Europeans Have Realized Their Error - The Atlantic
How the US Built 5,000 Ships in WWII - by Brian Potter
Money Stuff: OpenAI Will Get A Bit More Normal
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EPA plans to end the popular Energy Star program for home appliances - The Washington Post
The most disturbing aspect of Trump’s first 100 days
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Platform Power Is Underrated
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There’s a Better Way for Trump to Boost the Birth Rate - The Atlantic
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession - The Atlantic
The Lore of the World - by Erik Hoel
Personality and Persuasion - by Ethan Mollick
The Secret AI Experiment That Sent Reddit Into a Frenzy - The Atlantic
Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence — The New Atlantis
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We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI — The New Atlantis
Money Stuff: Can You Blame the Chatbots?
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Metformin and Anti-Aging: What to Know - The New York Times
Opinion | Musk’s cuts to national service gut a vital resource for Americans - The Washington Post
Germany’s staid-seeming new chancellor has a mercurial streak
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Scotland’s outdated land laws threaten the future of rural towns
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Trump threw away our best chance at fairer trade
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Elon Musk to step back from DOGE near Trump’s 100th day. What’s his legacy? | Vox
If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months
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Apartments for Rent in a Former Office, but You Have to Live in Midtown - The New York Times
A Former Office Tower Goes Big for Residents - The New York Times
The future of silk - by Hiawatha Bray
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MAGA doesn't build
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North Carolina is Ditching 1960s Era Zoning
Incrementalism is The Fastest Path to Abundant Housing Supply
Incrementalism is The Fastest Path to Abundant Housing Supply
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What Stagflation Would Mean for America - The Atlantic
How to have friends past age 30 - by Noah Smith
Money Stuff: The Stock Market Loves Bitcoin
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Money Stuff: At Least the Market Isn't Boring
Trump is crippling the tax police
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Opinion | Trump is on a Path to Failure - The New York Times
Worst-case scenarios and endgames for the Trump economy
The immigration fix hiding in plain sight
The Supreme Court can’t save America | Matter
The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen — The New Atlantis
If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know? | Matter
The story of the Gilded Age wasn’t wealth. It was corruption.
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet - The New York Times
Don't ignore Republicans' awful budget
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South Korea Shipbuilding Strength Could Help in Tariff Talks With US - The New York Times
Manufacturing jobs are never coming back
The Techno-Utopian Seasteaders Who Want to Colonize the Ocean - The New York Times
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Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole - Ars Technica
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Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire is slipping away
Is there a cure for seasonal allergies? Actually, yes. | Vox
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here - by Noah Smith
What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like?
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Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail - The Atlantic
Buy the Truth, Sell the News - Bloomberg
All the arguments for Trump's tariffs are wrong and bad
Understanding US Power Outages - by Brian Potter
Save Havens May Not Be - Bloomberg
The Three States That Are Especially Stuck if Congress Cuts Medicaid - The New York Times
Tariffs Are For Emergencies - Bloomberg
Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots - The New York Times
Thousands of jobs in doubt as EV projects are canceled after Trump win - The Washington Post
The Dumbest Economic Policy in Modern History - The Atlantic
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People Are Worried About Deleveraging - Bloomberg
Opinion | The Theories Behind the Trump Shock - The New York Times
Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Americans Smugglers Again - The Atlantic
Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump - The New York Times
The War Room newsletter: Why B-2 bombers are gathering on a tiny island
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Trade deficits do not make a country poorer
Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs
The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. - The Atlantic
Why Should Intelligence Be Related To Neuron Number?
Would affordable housing boost America’s birth rates? | Vox
Trump tariffs: They’re self-defeating and pointless | Vox
Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla
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No Tariff Carve-Out for Farmers - The Atlantic
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The latest episode of Mad King Trump - by Noah Smith
Orbán’s Hungary Could Be America’s Future - The Atlantic
Womb for improvement - by Aria Babu
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Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA - by Zvi Mowshowitz
Money Stuff: There’s a Stock Exchange for Lawsuits | annotated by Brian
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Democrats can't hide from immigration forever
Trump's war on science - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring
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Blue states don't build. Red states do. - by Noah Smith
Why Sheinbaum Can Surrender to Trump - The Atlantic
Opinion | How to Punish Russia, Make Money for America and End the War in Ukraine - The New York Times
Russia plays for time in Ukraine ceasefire talks
Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump is a business failure
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Opinion | Canada, May I Introduce You to Ukraine? - The New York Times
America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually? - Dwell
Europe needs to spend more on defence, not just pretend to
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America’s Democrats would be wise to embrace “abundance liberalism”
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Make foreign aid great - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring
Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?
Abundance Can Be America’s Next Political Order - The Atlantic
The Trump-Tariff Advice: Eat Less - The Atlantic
Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
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How A.I. Conquered Poker - The New York Times
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Money Stuff: The Unicorns Are Zombies
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Florida's iconic coral reefs are in serious trouble
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Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
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Age of Invention: How Coal Really Won
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Why No One Can Fix the Broken Licensing System - The Atlantic
Why the COVID Deniers Won - The Atlantic
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The Post-Neoliberal Delusion | Foreign Affairs
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Europe has no escape from stagnation
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Money Stuff: Private Credit Is the New Public Credit
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What to do with sincere but unpopular beliefs?
The worst thing Trump has done — so far
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Money Stuff: Robinhood Wanted B*ts on the B*g G*me
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Trump Is Incapable of Reforming the Federal Workforce - Bloomberg
What the Anti-Trump Coalition Needs to Do - The Atlantic
The Price America Will Pay for Trump's Tariffs - The Atlantic
America's 'marriage material' shortage
Money Stuff: Texas Tempts Meta
Civil servants shouldn't quit their jobs
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Congressional Republicans' coming war on poor people
Trump starts to break things - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Why Recurring Dream Themes? - by Scott Alexander
Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield | TechCrunch
Weight Loss Drugs and Their Lesser Known Side Effects on Relationships - The New York Times
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Too many Americans still fear the future - by Noah Smith
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Science Corp. Aims to Plant Ideas in Brains with New Device
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Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did it Better
As ChatGPT Explodes, a Question: Who Will Be AI's First Billionaire? - Bloomberg
Tech tycoons have got the Jevons paradox wrong
Money Stuff: OpenAI Doesn't Want AI Cheaters
A Less Brutal Alternative to IVF - The Atlantic
Trump Can't Escape the Laws of Political Gravity - The Atlantic
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The far right is going ... green?
Money Stuff: DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside
Housing Crisis: If Wall Street Wants to Buy More Homes, Let It - Bloomberg
Money Stuff: Hedge Fund AI Is Cheap AI
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Opinion | The Wars Within Trump's Court - The New York Times
Opinion | Us and Them Is All the Rage - The New York Times
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What would a world with AGI look like? - by Rohit Krishnan
Money Stuff: The Podcast: Messing With Models
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OpenAI's new anti-jobs program
Are we entering a Conservative Golden Age? - by Nate Silver
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The online porn free-for-all is coming to an end
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Trump Tax Cuts: Republicans Want the Poor to Pay for Them - Bloomberg
Opinion | Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn't It Feel That Way? - The New York Times
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Democrats Can Embrace Reality, or They Can Lose Again
13 Habits of Highly Effective Risk-Takers | WIRED
How to like everything more - by Sasha Chapin
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The Sad Decline of the Public Hangout in New York and Other Cities - Bloomberg
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Europe Is at War. Why Can't It Say So? - The Atlantic
What the H-1B visa fight is really about
Money Stuff: Everything Might Be Accounting Fraud
Pete Buttigieg has a few things to say on his way out - The Verge
AI's Uneven Arrival – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes - by Brian Potter
Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks
Trump and Republicans Avoid Hard Questions on Taxes, Immigration - Bloomberg
We're living in a century of solitude
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Money Stuff: The Podcast: Sick and Aging Trees
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Chinese AI DeepSeek Shows Why Trump's Trade War Will Be Hard to Win - Bloomberg
Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires
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Dictatorships Will Be Vulnerable to Algorithms | WIRED
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Trump Is Right: Abolish the Debt Ceiling - Bloomberg
How we'll know if Trump is going to sell America out to China
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