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Talking education with Jon Lovett
A recording from Matthew Yglesias and Jon Lovett's live video
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Matthew Yglesias
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Jon Lovett
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31:47
Saturday discussion thread
Take it away!
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Halina Bennet
317
Weekend reading list
A reading-themed post to combat the stats
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Halina Bennet
111
The Biden reckoning Democrats need
Plus private equity, lessons from Down Under, and George Eliot’s last book
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Matthew Yglesias
783
Thursday discussion thread
Texas Democratic Party faces upheaval ahead of midterms
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Halina Bennet
255
The dangerous war on Tylenol
Autism diagnoses have increased because diagnostic practices changed.
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Matthew Yglesias
392
As federal housing rules retreat, cities rewrite their own
Trump’s rollback of fair-housing oversight meets a wave of local reinvention, from D.C. tenant law to Santa Barbara adaptive reuse.
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Halina Bennet
213
The obscure coup that changed the world forever
In 1903, Serbia got a new king with a new anti-Habsburg foreign policy and the world got a Great War.
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Matthew Yglesias
259
Tuesday discussion thread
Would you pay $75,000 for your child’s A.I. tutor?
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Halina Bennet
211
The problems with transit have nothing to do with crime
Public transit is one of the safest ways to get around — it’s just too slow.
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Matthew Yglesias
595
Undeterred by rhetoric, local news leaders adapt
Start-ups and traditional outlets test models for the future of journalism.
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Halina Bennet
193
American students are getting dumber
It started before Covid, and it keeps getting worse.
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Matthew Yglesias
608
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
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Halina Bennet
585
Saturday discussion thread
What’s on your mind?
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Halina Bennet
471
Visualizing Colorado’s voters
How one state’s electorate flipped, and a couple questions for you
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Halina Bennet
153
The future of journalism
Also, why Colorado Democrats are so interesting and my Gen Z news diet
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Halina Bennet
278
Thursday discussion thread
Some good tech news
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Halina Bennet
246
MAGA’s scary clampdown on free speech
An unforgivable crime becomes a pretext.
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Matthew Yglesias
747
The week in housing news
As affordability declines nationally, leaders across the country experiment locally.
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Halina Bennet
271
What the research really says about immigration politics
The literature finds that “accommodating” restrictionists doesn’t work — but you should read it carefully.
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Matthew Yglesias
596
Tuesday discussion post
The country’s economic strength increasingly depends on a privileged few.
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Halina Bennet
169
There’s too many lumpers out there
A meta-ironic call for more specificity and less generalization
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Matthew Yglesias
314
Cuts to health care threaten an industry that’s already facing a mass exodus
As post-Covid pressures meet policy changes, health-care workers eye the exit.
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Halina Bennet
283
Could a shutdown finally end the filibuster?
An extremely conflicted take
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Matthew Yglesias
371
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Questions for Halina
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Halina Bennet
358
Saturday discussion thread
Take it away!
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Halina Bennet
397
Inflation has cooled, anger about the cost of living hasn’t
The rising prices of everyday items will likely cost both sides of the aisle.
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Halina Bennet
226
The half-drawn horse of abundance
Plus: Weezer, Harvard dorms, social mobility, and the first female president
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Matthew Yglesias
420
Thursday discussion thread
Should there still be gatekeepers?
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Halina Bennet
227
Chuck Schumer needs to lead
Call the Baileys. Make a plan. Play on a bigger field.
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Matthew Yglesias
461
Last week in housing
Red and blue states worked toward housing solutions.
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Halina Bennet
364
The state of the 2026 Senate map
Not terrible, not great
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Matthew Yglesias
523
Tuesday discussion post
What does abundance stand for?
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Halina Bennet
317
There’s no conspiracy against healthy eating
R.F.K. Jr.’s favorite mitochondrial dysfunction book is full of surprisingly banal advice — and weird lies about American health care
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Matthew Yglesias
669
BEAD’s quiet underspending
The U.S. broadband plan that’s leaving millions behind.
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Halina Bennet
199
“National” conservatism is un-American
Liberals should respect our heritage; conservatives should see that our heritage is liberal
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Matthew Yglesias
609
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below!
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Halina Bennet
493
What you missed at the National Conservatism Conference
Big names pushed a grand design, but internal contradictions and ideological fractures lay just beneath the surface.
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Halina Bennet
487
Why “Moneyball” worked while DOGE failed
Plus Greater France, great nuclear programs, and a great House recruit
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Matthew Yglesias
711
Thursday discussion thread
Birth rates fell, tuition rose, and now colleges face an enrollment cliff.
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Halina Bennet
245
A boring theory of the populist right
A large minority of the public wants tougher policies on crime and immigration
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Matthew Yglesias
1,004
Has Denver’s minimum wage gone too far?
Rising costs are squeezing the city’s independent restaurants
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Halina Bennet
276
I’ve been right about some things
Is Matt Yglesias always wrong? An investigation
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Matthew Yglesias
718
Tuesday discussion thread
A California city’s Trumpward swing
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Halina Bennet
220
How the stock market learned to love Trump
Opportunism, corruption, and Wile E. Coyote
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Matthew Yglesias
587
Denver’s restaurants are dying
Rising costs put independent full-service dining at a disadvantage
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Halina Bennet
625
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below!
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Halina Bennet
528

August 2025

Saturday discussion thread
Bringing it back due to popular demand.
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Halina Bennet
360
Three phases of affordable housing
A week in housing and a weekend of recommendations
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Halina Bennet
284
What makes sense in ’90s nostalgia
Plus obviousness, Mayor Pete’s Black support, and the madness of Bluesky
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Matthew Yglesias
537
Waning days of a dying empire
Is this what collapse looks like from the inside?
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Halina Bennet
467
When people don’t vote, Democrats win
Everyone needs to learn the new politics of turnout
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Matthew Yglesias
545
Chatbots may not be causing psychosis, but they’re probably making it worse
A psychiatrist argues that unregulated artificial intelligence is a public health risk.
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Halina Bennet
331
What cash can and can’t do
My take on the ongoing U.B.I. wars
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Matthew Yglesias
476
How will the Electoral College look in 2032?
A buzzy study predicts a rightward shift. What do you think?
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Halina Bennet
240
Postcards from the wrong side of history
The triumph of poptimism taught me it’s hard to know which way the winds of history will blow
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Matthew Yglesias
644
Breaking down State Senate Bill 79
California debates a major transit-oriented housing reform
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Halina Bennet
265
Your cause is not the moral equivalent of fighting slavery
Against abolitionist cosplay
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Matthew Yglesias
620
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below!
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Halina Bennet
770
A few things worth noting (and trying)
Examples of local problem-solving with national implications — and recommendations for your weekend
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Halina Bennet
434
I’m sort of “against polling” too
Plus whether the Baumol effect is a disease, and correct opinions about lobster rolls
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Matthew Yglesias
651
Your take on Slow Boring’s evening post
We are expanding our coverage at Slow Boring. We want your take.
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Halina Bennet
242
A warning sign for America about Trump’s personalist rule
Why and when do autocracies underperform on growth?
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Matthew Yglesias
553
A week in housing
Housing and development news from August 13-20
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Halina Bennet
171
D.C. needs real policing, not propaganda
I’m worried Trump is only going to make crime worse
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Matthew Yglesias
485
A case study in the new politics of higher education
Santa Ono tried to play ball with Trump’s agenda for higher education. He ended up abroad.
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Halina Bennet
326
Moms leaving the workforce is a warning sign, not a revolution
It’s economics, not the culture war
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Matthew Yglesias
483
SB PM: Launch day
Sherrod Brown and The Argument enter the fray.
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Halina Bennet
190
Moderation is not overrated
G. Elliott Morris is wrong on the internet
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Matthew Yglesias
490
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below!
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Halina Bennet
602
SB PM: A week in review
Some of the country’s biggest headlines
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Halina Bennet
258
Value over replacement cop
Plus trust fund accounting, the value of chill alarmism, and the meaning of charisma
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Matthew Yglesias
656
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