I think it is great that my son exists and lives in America.

Mare of Easttown (2021)

This James Temple piece is really good

technologyreview.com/2024/05/07/109…

Guy who thinks the US should've just let Pearl Harbor slide because the GDP multipliers on military spending are too low

Panera invented a lemonade with so much caffeine that it killed people?

thehill.com/homenews/nexst…

Millennial culture is developing an Oliver Stone-like obsession with finding the 'real story' of who forged the Niger yellowcake uranium documents

So many research ideas! Thanks U.S. CBO

.Sam Rosenfeld and I wrote a big book about American political parties and it's out today. We offer a wide-angle account of how the parties got here. You should buy it and read it: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Kuran 1995

It's not just the Trump people who seem to believe this. Lots of folks pushing for protectionist measures on the left too! Politics feels like a decade behind the current economic situation

Zoomers love LBJ

nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/…

This book is really good and essential to read if you want to understand where American politics is going and also has a hilarious picture of Tammany Hall bagman George Washington Plunkitt in the middle of it

For the last eight years [good god] Daniel Schlozman and I have been working on a book together. It comes out tomorrow. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

There is a total lack of discipline and strategic thinking in the progressive foundation world, nobody wants to call the funders out on it publicly because everyone wants their money, and it’s catastrophic for the interests of the people progressives want to help.

how slaughter-based meat is made 🥓:

In the 1990s a poorly phrased comment of mine was surreptitiously recorded. The group took out full page ads w/ my quote. I'm fortunate no Twitter then for mean people (in intent or effect) to spread it.

Jared Bernstein, a world class policymaker, was less fortunate in his timing.

Anyone have recommendations for a professional human transcription service?

AI has gotten a lot better but I have some stuff I’d prefer not to spend hours correcting the AI draft of

I remember watching this that Sunday morning at age 10 and having my mind fully blown