Matthew Yglesias
Writing a book: ONE BILLION AMERICANS; podcasting on THE WEEDS; blogging at https://t.co/5gESirESRH; proud owner of a non-conforming garage
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Who are the #HotGirlsForBernie?
The grassroots campaign is a pushback against the "Bernie Bro" stereotype.
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He’s got Joe Rogan *and* hot girls, truly a big tent candidate.
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Trump’s Space Force boldly goes where Star Trek went before
Highly illogical.
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I would just note that the first space shuttle was named Enterprise, so Trek homage is nothing new for government space efforts.
Big problem is the Space Force should use naval ranks like Starfleet instead of this Air Force nonsense.
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1917 vividly recreates WWI’s trench warfare. Is that enough to win Best Picture?
Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Sam Mendes’s "one shot" war movie.
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Any time there is a valid pretext to make some World War I content I am there.
It’s all in here: 1917! The Hindenburg Line! All Quiet on the Western Front! The shifting historiography of German war guilt!
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How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a case study of how lawmakers make themselves richer with the bills they pass.
The road to polarization by The Weeds
Ezra joins Matt to discuss his upcoming book; Why We're Polarized.
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@ezraklein Or in a pinch, you could listen to him talk about the book on THE WEEDS.
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Why Democrats Still Have to Appeal to the Center, but Republicans Don’t
Polarization has changed the two parties — just not in the same way.
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Here’s @ezraklein’s rosy thoughts on the future of American democracy!
nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opi… pic.twitter.com/qWAi6ylnjd
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Inside the secret Twitter rooms where Debra Messing, Don Cheadle, and the rest of the celebrity #Resistance organizes
Progressive influencers, activists, and presidential campaigns are organizing behind digital closed doors.
Steve Mnuchin climate economics
There’s overwhelming consensus among scientists for more aggressive action.
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Mnuchin should listen to economists on climate change and stop yelling at Greta Thunberg!
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The lessons from historic preservation councils blocking solar panels
American politics is a thicket of local civic and political groups that may resist change.
Washington’s Sneakiest Plan for Deficit Reduction.
As fiscal-cliff negotiations continue, reports indicate that the two sides are still at an impasse on Sunday afternoon because the GOP insists that...
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Compared to where I was 8 years ago, I am both more convinced that Chained CPI is “more correct” as a technical matter and also more convinced that cutting Social Security benefits is a bad idea.
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Bernie Sanders’s path to the 2020 Democratic nomination, explained
Sanders’s political revolution looks different — and more diverse — than it did in 2016.
One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias: 9780593190210 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A bold case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness—from Vox co-founder and host of “The Weeds” podcast Matt Yglesias. America is in decline. Fewer children...
The Bernie-Biden clash over Social Security, explained
The potential return of the "grand bargain" on budgetary balance.
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There have been a lot of overblown disagreements in this primary.
But there’s some chance Rs will change their minds about the “grand bargain” if Dems win in 2020 and it matters whether the president is inclined to take them up on it.
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The Obama-Biden administration repeatedly offered to cut Social Security benefits in order to achieve a “balanced” debt reduction strategy.
Sanders & Warren objected and Republicans wouldn’t go for it.
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There is *some* nuance to the whole thing, but Joe Biden has definitely proposed cutting Social Security benefits a whole bunch of times.
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How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world
One man, some very old solar panels, and a law that looks a lot like part of the proposed US Green New Deal helped transform the way Germany gets its power.
The answer to America’s health care cost problem might be in Maryland
Maryland has a health care system unique in the United States: a global hospital budget. Here’s how it works.
Ebola was incredibly important to TV news until Republicans decided it shouldn’t be
The hack gap in action.
A pandemic killing tens of millions of people is a real possibility — and we are not prepared for it
A century ago, the Spanish flu killed more than 50 million people. The world is at risk of another pandemic of similar scale.
Democrats should talk about child care costs in a broader way
Many parents have jobs, not careers — but the issue matters to everyone.
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I’ve gotten a little obsessed with this: Because politicians and the people who run presidential campaigns are very career-oriented people, Democrats slide into talking about child care as if everyone is like that.
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