The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
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A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight
A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
The Republican Party May Be Failing
“The Party Decides,” the 2008 book by the political scientists Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel and John Zaller, has probably been both the most-cited and th…
Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years
Goldwater, however, rejected the "liberalism" of Eisenhower, Rockefeller, and other "moderates" within his own party. Extremism in defense of liberty was no vice, he famously told the 1964 nominating convention, and moderation was no virtue. And it doomed him and his party... This weekend, House Republican leader John Boehner played out the role of Jude Wanniski on NBC's "Meet The Press."Odds are you've never heard of Jude, but without him Reagan never wou...
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Opinion | Why Can’t Everyone Get A’s?
Excellence is not a zero sum game.
‘Dirty Jobs’ guy says Safety Third is “a conversation worth having” | 2012-
Hi Dave - Mike Rowe here, Dirty Jobs, etc. I’m writing to thank you for your article in May’s edition of ISHN, and for sharing with your readers a few of my comments on workplace safety. Over the years, I’ve learned that some Safety Professionals do not always welcome criticism, especially from a smart aleck TV Host.
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The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies
In CAR-T therapy, a patient’s own immune cells are genetically engineered to recognize and attack cancer. Illustration by Alexander Glandien It matters that the…
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Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants
If someone told me when I was young that I would spend three months of my time tracing nineteenth century botanical illustrations and enjoy it, I would have scoffed, but that’s what I did to reproduce Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants and I loved every minute.
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How Not to Regulate Social Media
Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm.
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Deconstructing cultural codes - Marginal REVOLUTION
As I continue to do Conversations with Tyler, more people ask me about “the Tyler Cowen production function.” Well, here is one piece of it I don’t think I’ve written about or talked about before. I’m going to bring you there in slightly long-winded fashion, long-winded for a blog post that is. I’ve long been …
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Danny Thompson’s Blazing Nitromethane-Fueled Pursuit of Racing Glory
An American tale of speed demons, murder and a son's attempt to complete his father's unfinished legacy
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The Slow Death of Hollywood
Hi, Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. First, housekeeping. I’m launching a new section of Big called “From the Mailbag,” which are emails from readers. The reason is that I got a bunch of interesting emails from ex-Boeing people after my
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We hired the author of 'Black Hawk Down' and an illustrator from 'Archer' to adapt the Mueller report so you'll actually read it
It feels like nobody read the Mueller report. That's a shame, because it's an important document, depicting possible crimes by a sitting US president.
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Whose advice should you take?
My wife finds it irritating that I often take a long time to get round to following her recommendations, even though the ones I follow almost always turn out to be successful. This post is about wh…
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Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man - Issue 74: Networks - Nautilus
Today the alkaline desert is quiet. The roar of techno music and flamethrowers has been replaced with the soft clink of rakes and…
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Has the world’s largest road rally become an excuse to sell swag?
The Gambler 500—the world's largest road rally—started simply enough, but it may have lost sight of its founding principles.
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Nomads travel to America’s Walmarts to stock Amazon’s shelves
To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys.
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The Book of Job
Rumors had been whispering for a month. The new financing round hadn’t gone well, the expected deals hadn’t materialized, and something had...
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Writer Esmé Weijun Wang on life with the 'collected schizophrenias' | CBC Radio
Most of what we hear about schizophrenia comes from clinicians or caregivers struggling to make sense of an experience they cannot share. Writer Esmé Weijun Wang's new essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias gives us a rare, first-person look at life with schizoaffective disorder.
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Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It
The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.
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In 1919, driving cross-country was a crazy idea. An Army convoy set out to show it could be done.
The military vehicles would attempt to navigate thousands of miles of unpaved back roads and reach California by early September.
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I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
Once upon a time there was a guy on my team so weak that he was going to be fired (a developer! Fired!). Every comment of mine was another nail in his coffin.
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10 tips for reviewing code you don’t like
Here are 10 tips to keep in mind when reviewing code submissions that, for whatever reason, you (as a project maintainer) do not like.
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