Matthew Yglesias
10x tweeter. AirBNB Superhost. Dad. Chief Neoliberal Shill, 2019. The Weeds podcast. Proud owner of a non-conforming garage. Vox co-founder.
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Amid failure to topple Maduro, Trump privately proposes a naval blockade of Venezuela
"I'm assuming he's thinking of the Cuban missile crisis," one source said. "But Cuba is an island and Venezuela is a massive coastline."
The Barbaric History of Sugar in America
How sugar became the “white gold” that fueled slavery — and an industry that continues to exploit black lives to this day.
Matthew Yglesias
The history and historical role of sugar is so fascinating ... not such a big deal economically any more but still such a huge influence on nutrition, health, and human ecology.
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Mette Frederiksen: Nu stopper snakken om at sælge Grønland
Statsministeren er ankommet i Nuuk, hvor hun skal mødes med landsstyreformanden.
Support for free trade reaches new high in NBC/WSJ poll
Amid the ongoing trade war with China, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they support free trade in the latest NBC News/WSJ poll.
D-FW leads the country in apartment construction and leasing
Dallas-Fort Worth is hanging on to its ranking as the country's top market for new apartments.And the outlook for next year is even more new rental...
White supremacist charged with threatening to shoot up Jewish community center
An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown.
NBCWSJ August 2019 Poll
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Ben Kamisar (NBC News).
The High-Speed Rail Germany Needs
I’ve argued in two previous posts that Germany needs to build a complete high-speed rail network, akin to what China, Japan, France, South Korea, and Spain have built. Here is the network tha…
Matthew Yglesias
Boom. @alon_levy drew the plan.
Only problem is that at an estimated cost of €50 billion it doesn’t come close to meeting Germany’s urgent need to run a substantial budget deficit!
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When moving to opportunity offers no opportunity at all: A lesson from the Great Migration | Brain Trust
Economist Ellora Derenoncourt studied the way northern cities responded to black migration.
Shell Workers Had To Attend Trump Speech To Be Paid, Were Ordered Not To Protest: Report
They were instructed: "No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance," according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Maine families face elder boom, worker shortage in preview of nation’s future - The Washington Post
The disconnect between Maine’s aging population and its need for young workers is expected to be mirrored throughout the country, demographic experts say.
Serfdom and Russian economic development
There is a debate among economists about the effects of serfdom on economic development. This column sheds light on this debate using novel dataset from 19th-century Russia. The findings indicate
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Different political context: “Overall, according to our counterfactual estimates, Russia would have been about twice as rich by 1913 compared to what it actually was, had it abolished serfdom in 1820 instead of 1861.”
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America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.
The Regrettes - Juicebox Baby | Live @ JBTV
The Regrettes performing their song "Juicebox Baby" from their album Feel Your Feelings Fool live on the JBTV Stage The Regrettes are a punk band from Los An...
What’s up with the yield curve?
This episode of Today, Explained walks through the infamous yield curve and what it’s signaling about the next recession.
Deadspin Editor Quits, Rails Against Bosses: ‘I’ve Been Repeatedly Lied To and Gaslit’
The new bosses in charge of what used to be the Gawker network of websites have drastically upended the culture, Greenwell said, leaving her no choice but to resign.
Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Results Show He Hanged Himself in Suicide
The New York City’s chief medical examiner determination refutes conspiracy theories that he may have been murdered.