Matthew Yglesias

Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives and should be a model for future pandemic prevention, instead Trump is throwing away the best part of his legacy to appeal to paranoid losers. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-awf...

I would define Blueskyism as the habit of looking at a Clinton / Biden / Harris voter who happens to be somewhat more moderate than the poster on certain issues and deciding that person should be loudly condemned as a fascist and shunned.

Foreign aid money is scarce, politically unpopular, and should be reserved for poor countries or cases like Ukraine where we are helping someone fend off a much stronger enemy. Without getting into stronger critiques, Israel just doesn’t qualify. www.slowboring.com/p/america-sh...

I assume the Hungarian opposition beat Orban by being uncompromisingly progressive across the whole set of policy issues. Well done.

Great topic for a paper — how do partisan elites' views of climate change differ. Except the way they constructed the survey, they only asked questions where the progressive view is the accurate view so you can't tell if Dem elites are better informed than GOP ones or just more progressive.

I’d say Pete Magyar has maybe gone too far in moderating with this one, but I’d still vote for him

Historically, the economy does better under Democratic presidents than Republican ones. A major reason is that the GOP’s business-friendly outlook is undermined by its habit of launching wars that wreck global energy markets. www.slowboring.com/p/republican...

It’s legitimate and appropriate for women to want to advocate for decent treatment and equal rights without becoming edgy intersectional communists. www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense...

The much maligned “girlboss” is good, actually — feminism without anticapitalism is fine and correct. www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense...

Where I agree most with the left — health care, taking care of the poor, opposing stereotype-based governance. www.slowboring.com/p/my-most-pr...

Journalism is important. Large language models are a useful tool for improving journalistic productivity. They should be used more widely so we can get more journalism. www.slowboring.com/p/journalist...

Democrats love infighting about Israel and antitrust policy but this is the stuff that does the most to move the needle electorally www.theargumentmag.com/p/can-a-libe...

Mamdani has done a bunch of things to reassure skeptics, a process greatly aided by the fact that he literally can't implement his tax and spending plans. www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-ho...