- Most Voters Have Concerns Over Trump’s Qatar Plane
- Who Trades Most with the U.S. in the Middle East?
- Scott Sumner on the AI macroeconomist and it’s implications for current practitioners
- David Levey on the Moody’s downgrade
- The SignalFire State of Talent Report – 2025. Tech’s talent gap widens and new grad hiring plummets.
- Famines kill far fewer people today than they did in the past, but remain a major threat
- Bryan Caplan on Government (Absurdly Overrated)
- Kyla Scanlon applying The Screwtape Letters to economics
- Inside US Air Traffic Control: Conflicts of Interest and Absence of Oversight
- Plastic’s Quiet Role in Defeating Poverty
- Could the Growth of Private Credit Pose a Risk to Financial System Stability?
- A tax strategy for the new tax system (if passed) via Reason
- Kris Abdelmessih on Commencements
- The Work of Andres Rodriguez-Clare
- A Liz Truss Moment for America?
- Beyond Caste: How Migration Enables Love & Economic Prosperity!
- Julia Azari explains why we’re learning the wrong lessons from Biden’s decision to run in 2024
- The Global Rise in Long-Term Yields
- Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says (Wash Post)
- Streamers Are Finally Making Money. For Consumers, It’s Getting Messier. (WSJ)
- Magnus Carlsen vs. The World: chess grandmaster’s 46-day game against 143,000 players ends in draw (NYT’s The Athletic)
- How Indigenous groups in Brazil are using virtual reality to reclaim their stories (CSM)
- Where should new cities go?
- The end of an era that I didn’t even know existed (Wash Post) I knew about the show in the abstract but I had never watched it and had no idea how long it has lasted.
- Major newspapers ran a summer reading list. AI made up book titles. (Wash Post) Seriously, haven’t we learned by now to fact check these things?
- In a First, a Story Collection Wins the International Booker Prize (NYT)
- Theater to Stream: The Tony-Nominated ‘Yellow Face,’ ‘Vanya’ and More (NYT)
- An ode to drywall from Yassine Meskhout
- Trump’s Take on Taiwan
- The surprising factor that’s driving up home-foreclosure rates (WSJ’s MarketWatch)
- Update on the Military Base Realignment and Closure Process
- The US has a new most powerful laser
- British soldiers make Everest history using new method
- Jupiter was formerly twice its current size and had a much stronger magnetic field, study says
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson