A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.

You ran some cool regression analysis OK great. Make some nice graphics and put it on a Substack. Engaging headline, 1500-2500 well-written words. That's literally 100x faster than trying to publish in a journal and it's better peer review anyway.

I’d bet that within a decade, wealthy parents will be sending their kids to elite private schools that market themselves as low tech (no phones, screens, AI, etc.) and we’ll end up scrambling to figure out how to make this kind of education available to marginalized students.

Yeah, they learn "most Americans live paycheck to paycheck" and "Blackrock bought all the housing."

Honestly a pretty good choice, credit where credit is due

Me and the homegirl put that AMC + ClassPass partnership to use and the theater was packed on a Monday night. They’re on to something with using credits for movies.

My grandfather was born in Jubareh - the Jewish ghetto of Isfahan. When it rained he and all other Isfahani Jews were forbidden from going outside because the rain touching their Jewish skin would “pollute” the water supply. My great-grandfather was lynched to death in the

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European leg of Coldplay's world tour off to a good start

If elected, Nadler would join Barack Obama as only the second president in American history born after 1946.

#Cubs Greg Maddux made his big league debut, as a pinch-runner in the bottom of the 17th inning, 39 years ago today, on Sept. 3, 1986—he would stay in the game to pitch the top of the 18th. Maddux’s debut is often, and officially, listed as Sept. 2, 1986, as that is when the

A ten strike law preventing people from leaving prison after that many violent crime convictions would reduce period violent crime by 20% Five strikes would cut violent crime by 40% Three strikes would halve violent crime Two strikes would remove ~two-thirds of violent crime

The poorest state is Mississippi w/ a median HHI of $58.5k. This is 20% than higher than the nation of France ($48k) and 17% higher than UK ($50k) It’s difficult to overstate how insanely rich this country is in both absolute and relative terms

We are learning from OpenAI and Anthropic about how people use AI for work. It is primarily for high-level tasks - critical thinking, the interpretation of information, getting/giving advice & being creative (both companies categorize a little differently, but similar patterns)

this is it. this is everything

* Detain frequent offenders pre-trial; * Incarcerate them longer; * Fix the national mental health bed shortage; * Give outpatient treatment the tools to succeed. In The Atlantic, Rafael A. Mangual and I explain how to prevent the next Charlotte murder:

They had to go to a Times of London reporter with this scheme because no local New York journalist would ever believe Bill de Blasio would do something to benefit Andrew Cuomo

New Jersey municipalities that are 60%+ Hispanic where we currently have results:

You cannot tell where someone went to college by their prose style, with one total exception: The University of Chicago.

This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving