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In Defense of the Thesaurus for writers.
Why it's so hard to scale up new materials
Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings (NYT)
What's the Matter with India
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future (NYT)
China is almost single handedly driving the global green electricity transition
Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?
In pro-military Nebraska, a lawmaker's stand over Hegseth tests the GOP (Wash Post)
'Sesame Street,' Facing Crisis, Signs New Deal With Netflix (NYT) - Show will also air on PBS again.
Scott Sumner on why tariffs won't cause much inflation but are still bad
Rare Earths Plants Are Popping Up Outside China (WSJ)
Trump's Retreat Still Leaves Tariffs at 90-Year Highs
What Are the Most Popular Baby Names in the U.S.? . I wouldn't have guessed any of these.
Malaria: One of the leading causes of child deaths, but progress is possible…
When Pol Pot Read a Book on Marx
I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
America's College Towns Go From Boom to Bust (WSJ)
NIST set its new atomic clock in motion, and it’s astoundingly precise (Wash Post)
Megan McArdle on the calm before the AI storm (Wash Post)
Space Force official: Commercial satellites can do a lot more than we thought
Do More Powerful Unions Generate Better Pro-Worker Outcomes?
How ancient India changed the world (Wash Post)
Through the Eye of the Storm: Post-Hurricane Migration in Florida's Panhandle
Remote Work, Employee Mix, and Performance
The Snob Effect, Bandwagon Effect and Financial Behavior: A Comparative Study among Spanish and Turkish Students I'm familiar with bandwagon effect but snob effect is new to me.
A peek into the big, wide world of miniatures
The Coalition That Powered Trump to Victory in 2024 Is Starting to Fray (WSJ)
Utilitarianism, Effective Altruism, Population and Pigs
The 'Great Hesitation' That's Making It Harder to Get a Tech Job (WSJ)
The Four Horsemen of the Economic Apocalypse - Protectionism, Socialism, Populism, and Nationalism.
Meet the 'Stealthy Wealthy' Who Make Their Money the Boring Way (WSJ)
Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite . (WSJ) When digital crime morphs to IRL.
Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth via Conor Friedersdorf
China's warplane combat debut over Kashmir riles tense geopolitics (Wash Post)
The Economist's global rip off
What Desi Arnaz Could Teach Hollywood Today (NYT)
Tariffs Will Reshape the Economy. What Should Change Won't. (Barrons)
Jason Brennan's Good Work If You Can Keep It . It's a review of a book about how to get to a tenured position and the reviewer, Bryan Caplan, has additional insight to add. Interesting even if, like me, you have no thoughts about teaching at a University, much less tenure.
Cars beneath the ground via Conor Friedersdorf
Man sits with chairs and his sign: 'You are not alone. I will listen.' (Wash Post)