Thomas Edsall’s latest New York Times essay opens with a Peter Thiel quote from 2010 that deserves far more scrutiny for historic parallels than the NYT gives it. We could never win an election on getting certain things because we were in such a …

Matthew Yglesias runs a Substack called Slow Boring where he routes every problem in American political economy through zoning reform. His latest piece asks why Silicon Valley hasn’t done more for most Americans, and his answer is: not enough apa…

A “water rat” in German (Wasserratte) is someone who swims extremely well. Think of it like “book worm”. A “book rat” (Leseratte) is someone very proficient at reading. The compound logic is simple: an animal plus an…

The New York Times published a long piece by Clive Thompson on how AI is transforming programming. It’s like hearing someone drag their nails on a philosophy chalkboard in an attempt to erase centuries of human progress. Developers at Google, Ama…

A thread on Bluesky was forwarded to me that compared the US-Israeli war on Iran to the 1956 Suez Crisis, or the “War of Tripartite Aggression” as it’s called by some. Their argument is we are in America’s Suez moment, and the q…

Donald Trump bombed Iran claiming he would achieve overnight success just like the 24-hour victory he promised in Ukraine. Two weeks of open-ended waste later, his administration is leaking three “small” ground operation plans to Axios like…

Eleven days into the bombing of Iran, the United States has struck over 3,000 targets, killed the Supreme Leader, destroyed the state broadcaster’s headquarters, hit a parliament building, bombed a girls’ school full of children, mined the …