G.B. Shaw said youth is wasted on the young. Clever but wrong.

Excited to get the revised version of this paper out!

This is still one of my favorite papers I’ve worked on, which combines rich descriptives, theory, and causal reduced form analysis to help resolve some important puzzles in measured self-employment trends

Today's edition of The Daily defined is worth a listen:

'On the campaign trail, Trump has outlined a vision that is far more radical, vindictive and unchecked than his first one.'

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If you are a progressive, this alone should compel you to vote for Biden, regardless of anything else. When Biden says our freedoms and democracy are on the ballot, federal court appointments - especially to the Supreme Court - are at the heart of that.

Samuel Alito is 74. Clarence Thomas is 75. Roberts and Sotomayor are 69. The next president may very well nominate replacements for multiple (if not all!) of these justices. If Trump is president, the Supreme Court is gone for the rest of our lifetimes. That means an all-powerful…

I’m Angela Alsobrooks and I’m running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. 💁🏾‍♀️

My campaign is endorsed by more than 200 local leaders, organizations and labor unions because they know I’m the fighter Marylanders need in Washington.

I hope I can count on your vote on May 14th.

MAGA justices not only want usurp legislative power but increasingly want to usurp the role of juries, which are fully able to determine if the action of a president is public or private.

This is incredibly powerful coming from the Building Trades Unions.

North America’s Building Trades Unions releases new ad exposing Donald Trump’s lies to workers: “Trump is incapable of running anything, let alone the most powerful country in the history of the world”

Which candidate has a more unified party behind him?

Friday: Biden successfully pressures Israel to launch a minimalist military response to Iran

Saturday: Biden convinces Speaker Johnson to put Ukraine aid on the floor & notches a big bipartisan win

The 48 Hours When Joe Biden Saved Us From World War III: washingtonmonthly.substack.com/p/the-48-hours…

President Biden deserves a lot of credit for his leadership in helping to avoid a wider war in the Middle East. If Trump were president in the same situation the world would be in a much worse place.

In the new Marist national poll, Biden leads Trump by 3 points among all registered voters, but among the 78% who say they are definitely voting Biden's lead grows to 6 points -- 53% to 47%.

This is why no Democrat thought for a second about helping McCarthy save his speakership. He is a liar and could never be trusted.