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• American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People by T. H. Breen ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945: Red Steamroller by Robert Forczyk ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and, "the Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers by Mike Shropshire ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Spirit of St. Louis: A History of the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns by Peter Golenbock ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey ($1.99)
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden ($2.99)
• Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale ($2.99) Recommended
• Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal - The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War by Joseph Wheelan ($2.99)
• When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East" by Stewart Gordon ($2.99)
• Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Frederick the Great: A Military History by Dennis Showalter ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker ($2.99)
• Northman: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD by John Haywood ($3.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective 1970 to 1979 by G. B. Trudeau ($2.99)
• The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

• Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market
• How to build cheap transit in smaller towns
• Anti-tobacco measures are expanding, but coverage remains patchy
• Japan's Upper House Elections
• Only Five Ways to Address Rising US Debt
• Policy Uncertainty, Not "AI"-Automation, Is Almost Surely Behind the Bulk of Recent Graduates' Job Discontent
• Trump's new AI plan is necessary but insufficient
• The Long Process of European Unity
• The End of the Trade War
• Repairing the tax code after Trump
• Project Learning in the age of AI
• Where are Vacation Homes Located in the US?
• Break free from the "dopamine crash loop"
• AI Copyright Cases Will Shape the Future
• With Tesla's Sales Slumping, Its Valuation Looks Ludicrous
• President Trump's Approval Rating: Latest Polls as of July 24, 4045 (NYT)
• So Why Has Rural Housing Become Less Affordable?

• After Devestating Winter Losses, Another Threat Looms for U.S. Beekeepers (NYT)
• U.S. firms scramble to secure rare-earth magnets - imports from China surge 660%
• This Dinosaur Probably Tweeted More Than It Roared (NYT)
• Bonhoeffer's "theory of stupidity": We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones
• An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America's Beaches. Here's How. (NYT)
• Who Does Palantir Work For?
• Trying to Soften Up the Federal Reserve
• No On Controls MAGA - Not Even Trump (NYT)
• US exceptionalism roars back
• Ozzy Osbourne, 'Prince of Darkness' Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76 (NYT). Here is the Post's coverage.
• China's strategy? Let Trump cook. (WP)
• A Professor's Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter (NYT)
• FEMA moved quickly to help Texas. These other states waited months. (WP)
• Trump Goes to Bat for Big Tech in Global Trade Talks (WSJ)
• China Topics
• The New Hot Topic in European Politics Is Air Conditioning (WSJ)
• How Country Music Took Over the Charts: A Statistical Analysis
• Can a Steel Boom Revive This Rural American County? (WSJ)
• Coca-Cola to Offer Soda Sweetened With Cane Sugar. Consumer Choice Would Be Key. (Barrons)

• In Finland, national security is a shared responsibility. (CSM)
• New Female Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Cuts to Early Warning Systems Are Leaving the U.S. Unprepared for Summer Floods
• What Trump Trade Policy Has Achieved Since Liberation Day
• Here's How Much Aid The United States Has Sent Ukraine
• New Paper on GenerativeAI and Productivity Growth
• Can ChatGPT Exist Without Fossil Fuels?
• Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda? (NYT)
• Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth
• Weird bet on AI. More here.
• Is the Box Office Becoming More Top-Heavy?
• Live Music Industry Shatters Records in Post-Covid Comeback
• How to Deliver CSU's Gen Ed with AI
• The Hard Right Comes for Japan
• Canceling "The Late Show" Is Bad News for Late-Night TV, Not for Stephen Colbert (NYT)
• You Can't Just "Control" For Things - Statistical control that is.
• Why US tariffs are deflationary for China
• As Trump comes for Murdoch media, Fox News faces a bind (WP)
• How China Curbed Its Oil Addiction - and Blunted a U.S. Pressure Point (WSJ)
• On Ukraine's Front Line, a Sky Full of Killer Robots (WSJ)
• Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?
• Southwest Airlines will start assigned seating in January 2026 (WP)
• From Roman London, a Jigsaw Puzzle for the Ages (NYT)
• China's 'New Consumers' Don't Want a House. They Want Labubu and Bubble Tea. (WSJ)
• ChatGPT Agent: a big improvement but still not very useful

• Evolutionary Psychology and Socialism's Durability
• Drug Pricing Shenanigans with 340B
• A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk (NYT)
• How Did the Number of People Missing After Texas Floods Drop So Drastically? (NYT)
• Tougher US immigration enforcement
• Hamas facing financial and administrative crisis as revenue dries up (WP)
• No One Knows Anything About AI yet.
• Giant rats are leading land mine detection efforts in Cambodia
• After Pledgin to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials (WSJ)
• Colbert and the End of Late-Night TV (WSJ)
• Israel and Iran Usher in New Era of Psychological Warfare (NYT)
• The Robots That Are Taking Over Your Food Delivery (WSJ)
• A new era of floods has arrived. America isn't prepared (WP)
• Reactions to the Proposal by Senators Cassidy and Kaine to Rescue Social Security
• Why the GOP Supports Unpopular Stuff - And interesting links as well
• The appeal of Wokeism and Socialism
• Trump II is consequential - and not in a good way.

• More on U.S. Sovereign Default Risk
• 5 facts about how the world's population is expected to change by 2100
• Bryan Caplan Will Bet That One-Party Democracy Is Not Coming
• Advising the Next Generation
• What does "China Shock" actually mean?
• Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods? (NYT)
• Obliteration or Degradation
• Is Mexican Coke really better than the U.S. version? We put it to the test. (WP)
• The Problem With Using Sugar in Soda: The U.S. Doesn't Make Enough (WSJ)
• DIY vs. Specialization and Trade
• Dollar trap or empire by invitation? The global political economy of the dollar system
• Can an Economist Make Things Better?
• The Biggest K-Pop Band to Top the Charts Isn't Even Real (WSJ)
• The 'Smart' Restrooms That Can Solve America's Public Bathroom Crisis (WSJ)

• Does the US Benefit When the US Dollar is the Global Reserve Currency?
• Are you prepared to pay 10% more for Coca-Cola? That could be the result of a switch to cane sugar. (WSJ MarketWatch). I am, but I doubt most would be (nor should they be). If we are going retro, can we bring back the 16 ounce bottles while we are at it?
• Colbert Cancellation Exposes the Perilous State of Late-Night TV (WSJ)
• Not Even 'The Late Show' Could Defy Gravity (NYT)
• CBS Says It's Canceling Colbert Over Money, Not Politics. Is that Truthiness? (NYT)
• Can Turkey fix itself under Erdogan?
• Do you use a fan to sleep? Here's what to know. (WP)
• Beep Ball World Series is a home run for blind players. (CSM)
• Global Cross-Border Payments: A $1 Quadrillion Evolving Market? h/t Adam Tooze
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent - With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears (WSJ)
• How YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers
• Chinese ship building, using solar on cargo ships and oil tankers, and lobbying FEMA to remove buildings at Camp Mystic and Camp Mystic Cypress Lake from the FEMA flood maps just years before the devastating flood that lost 27 campers and counselors.
• Vaccination Rates Are Stagnating
• Most Americans Trust Routine Vaccines, Fewer Trust Covid-19 Vaccines

• The Uneven Distribution of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• What the Heck is Welfare?
• History, Institutions and Economics
• Is Less Information Better?
• China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower (NYT)
• Drones are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any. (NYT)
• How much are liberals to blame for state failure?
• China's export machine is really hurting
• The Push to Make Tiny Homes in Backyards Easier to Finance (WSJ)
• China's New Plan to Encourage More Births: $500 a Year (WSJ)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 14, 2025
• Economists and Dentists
• Sodas Might Contain Real Sugar Again. It Could Shake Up 3 Industries (Barrons)
• Islamic Geometric Patterns In the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
• How China Became the World's Biggest Shipbuilder
• Mobile Money Accounts Surpass Banks in Low-Income Countries
• Let Americans Buy Cars Online!
• Can Critical Mineral Deals Benefit Local Communities? Insights From Ghana's Lithium Project h/t Jeffrey Paller
• A Stark Reminder That Sex Differences Matter in Elite Sport

• Why Did Hollywood Stop Making Comedies? A Statistical Analysis
• Predicting earthquakes
• Small State Power: Be Like Denmark
• Tradeoffs of Lower Fertility Rates
• Inflation Rises Faster for Categories Typically Imported
• Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm (WSJ)
• The West's Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades (NYT)
• How Colorado Fought a Bank Robbery Surge (NYT)
• Bracing for China Shock 2.0
• Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers Reckons With Price Plunge (WSJ)
• Trump says Coca-Cola to switch to cane sugar in U.S. - just like Mexican Coke (WSJ). Big if true.
• Complex, real-world tasks
• The meaning of your life isn't a puzzle to solve
• Why Trump Hates Europe
• Archaeologists Discover Tomb of First King of Caracol
• The Patterns of Elites Who Conceal Their Assets Offshore
• Virginia is for … data centers? Residents are increasingly saying no

• Anduril Is Aiming to Do to Lockheed What Tesla Did to Ford (WSJ)
• Young Americans Are Spending a Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year
• They Have a Losing Record - and Everyone in Baseball Is Trying to Copy Them (WSJ)
• AI: Are Americans Worrying About the Wrong Jobs?
• AI Sucks Up a Growing Chunk of VC Funding in the U.S.
• Why the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya never invented the wheel
• Can the Financial Plumbing Handle Growing Treasury Debt?
• Drifting Toward Fiscal Dominance
• Assessing China's "National Model" Social Credit System
• Inflation Picks Up to 2.7% as Tariffs Start to Seep Into Prices (WSJ)
• Work Requirements: Moral Judgements vs. Incentives
• China's Economy Grows Steadily Despite Trump's Tariffs (NYT)
• The tariff inflation shock starts to hit
• Tarrifs, Deficits, and Deportations Will Damage a Dynamic Economy
• This Math Tutor Keeps Popping Up in Wes Anderson Films (NYT)
• Forget TACO. Trump Is Winning His Trade War (WSJ)