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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

My wife made this video to celebrate our engagement a few months ago and it's my favorite thing:

Elton John, "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" (with Kiki Dee)

Music video by Katie Salam

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

3 years

The latest from @CityJournal : a powerful and important @bariweiss piece on the fear, self-censorship, turmoil in America's elite private schools, and what it might mean for our ideological future:

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Having more CT Republicans and OK Democrats in Congress would change our politics for the better:

Opinion | How to Make Congress Bipartisan (Published 2017)

Eliminating gerrymandering is not enough to reduce polarization in Congress. A whole new voting system is needed.

www.nytimes.com

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7 years

Good piece, but treats whites as monolithic. First-gen college, non-rich, rural/small-metro whites underrepresented

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7 years

This is a great exercise. I often wind up thinking this way, as my own preferences aren't especially popular.

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7 years

Yuval Levin on the standing crisis:

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7 years

Great piece by @DashkaSlater :

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

4 years

I’ve known and admired Oren for years, both as a friend and as a colleague. His work is consistently thought-provoking and creative, and I’ll be following his new venture with great interest. You should too!

Oren Cass

@oren_cass

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Personal announcement: I will be leaving @ManhattanInst at year's end to start a new organization whose mission is to redefine the economic orthodoxy that guides the nation's politics and public policy. We will be launching publicly in the spring. 1/4

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Great article, but might have been worth mentioning that McCain 08 proposed curbing exclusion and was denounced by the Obama campaign.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Though as to why opinion journalism is often so toxic: it attracts people who are looking for socially acceptable ways to be contemptuous?

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

A note from @charlescwcooke , the editor of @NRO :

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

The best "Why I'm running" statement I've ever read from a GOP candidate:

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Chris, you might have to run for governor.

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

7 years

. @NYGovCuomo what are you doing about the subways? What are you doing about the subways? What are you doing about be subways?What are you d

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

I've been waiting for this piece ...

How American Anarchy Parallels China's Cultural Revolution

Both cultural revolution movements started on college campuses, with students who wanted to re-make history according to their own ideology.

thefederalist.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

6 years

My wife made this magical collage in honor of my fantasy basketball team, the Brooklyn Nietos. Though my team is pretty bad at the moment, I definitely have the best visuals.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

A bit of friendly Flake skepticism (in @Slate ):

Jeff Flake Is Not the Future of the Republican Party

Nostalgia is sweet. When I think back to the happiest moments in my life, thoughts turn to eating heaping piles of steamed broccoli, lovingly prepared...

slate.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Saddened by thought of internet trolls who are parents who really should be bonding with their kids. (But maybe the kids are better off?)

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

6 years

. @KSoltisAnderson on “Melting Pot or Civil War?” Interested in pre-ordering? Try B&N: or Amazon:

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@reihan

7 years

Jonathan Meer on the Seattle minimum-wage study (in @NRO ):

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@reihan

7 years

It is weird, but less weird if we were to understand these Two Minutes Hate moments as coordination devices.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

@minakimes Einstein a bit old, but can still provide quality minutes off the bench.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Hmong Americans represent roughly 1.5 percent of Asian Americans.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

I certainly don't agree with all of it, but nice work by @agranato42 .

Stanford Politics

@stnfrdpolitics

7 years

The Aristocracy That Let Me In via @agranato42

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Jarring to see Cuomo do the right thing on congestion:

Cuomo Calls Manhattan Traffic Plan an Idea ‘Whose Time Has Come’ (Published 2017)

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is advocating new tolls on some of the city’s busiest areas, a plan that could generate millions of dollars for repairing the subway.

www.nytimes.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

"I would advise a young graduate w/o relatives in high places to choose corporate life over the media." @JananGanesh

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@reihan

7 years

The Two Bannonisms (in @Slate ):

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Challenge facing the small-government right: once a problem is governmentalized, it's hard to reverse the process:

Why Republicans Are Losing the Health Care Fight (and How They Can Win in the End)

What happens if Senate Republicans can’t get the votes they need to pass the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the latest GOP effort to partially repeal...

slate.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

What does Jeff Flake propose doing if a member of the Chaidez family can't afford health insurance?

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

E.g., legacies aside, clearly fair to prefer working-class white kid raised by single parent over upper-middle-class AA kid from rich burb.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

10 months

Today in @CityJournal : @CharlesFLehman on why legalization won't solve the drug crisis: @jordanmcgillis on the Biden administration's self-defeating environmentalism: @eric_kober on the case for zoning-reform realism:

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

A history lesson from @foxjust :

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

2 years

See @eric_kober ’s latest for @ManhattanInst :

Can’t Keep a Great City Down: What the 2020 Census Tells Us About New York

Results from the 2020 census confirmed that New York City’s population grew significantly in the decade up to 2020, by 629,000. Spurred by a long economic boom, the city’s population growth happened...

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David Freedlander

@freedlander

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Between 2000 and 2017, New York City added 643,000 new jobs, but only permitted 390,000 new housing units

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

@michaelbd Oh man:

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

City Hall weddings in NYC have gone from being a bleak to a really wonderful experience -- a small Bloomberg legacy:

Getting Married Where the Catering Is a Pretzel Vendor (Published 2017)

The photographer Daniel Arnold spent the month of May camped outside the New York City Clerk’s Office, documenting couples getting married in irreverent, wild, untraditional — and sometimes very...

www.nytimes.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

6 years

Yuval Levin, editor of @NationalAffairs , on MPCW:

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

The Dallas Cowboys are now worth $4.2B:

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@reihan

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Fascinating piece on Assad's (sadly successful) project to remake Syrian demography (in @ForeignAffairs ):

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

FWIW, I believe the Cotton-Perdue numbers are negotiable if that's what it takes to get to 60 votes.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

@chrislhayes She is my hero.

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@reihan

7 years

Mass incarceration is almost entirely driven by local policy choices (by @JohnFPfaff ):

Mass Incarceration Is a Local Affair

And it is there that we will have to defeat it, no matter who may occupy the Oval Office.

democracyjournal.org

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Robert Laszewski on the stability of the exchanges (in @NRO ):

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@reihan

7 years

Very interesting working paper on white racial attitudes by Goldman and Hopkins:

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

11 months

SCOTUS decision on racial preferences in higher education raises questions about their use in other domains, e.g., preferences and set-asides in government contracting, subject of a recent @CityJournal article by the indispensable @judgeglock :

Welcome to the World of Minority Contracting

Government goals and set-asides for “disadvantaged” firms breed corruption and fraud, deepen racial divisions, and cost taxpayers billions.

www.city-journal.org

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Some thoughts on what it would take to pass the RAISE Act (in @Slate ):

Reducing Family-Based Admissions Is Essential to Reforming the American Immigration System

Americans are less divided on immigration than you might think. If the question is whether we ought to admit more immigrants or fewer of them, you’ll...

slate.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Smith on Cyrus (in @NRO ):

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This is good (by Andrew Kahn, in @Slate ):

Trump hasn’t killed comedy—he’s just exploded our dumb contemporary idea of comedy.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

slate.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Great @M_C_Klein post -- punctures insistence that LFP can't possibly grow (after rising much more than expected)

“Potential” output forecasts are actually worthless

www.ft.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

This is great news for @arstechnica . @binarybits is indispensable.

Timothy B. Lee

@binarybits

7 years

Tomorrow is my last day at @voxdotcom . Next up: covering tech policy and the future of transportation for @arstechnica .

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

I'm always eager to read Sri's thoughts, and grateful he'll be sharing them more often.

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Great piece taking long view (politics of fares, role of work rules/high construction costs, etc.) by @alon_levy :

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Main reason Wright's book is solid is that it largely avoids hyperbole, accepts premise of more competitive world.

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"We are closer to the beginning than to the end of the Trump-Russia drama" ( @NRO ):

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Truly excellent @BlakeSeitz piece on Georgia's 6th CD (in @NRO ):

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@benwizner This is just the tip of the iceberg. She is a mad genius.

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@reihan

7 years

Very impressed by @RichardRubinDC 's Stakhanovite work on the tax reform beat:

Richard Rubin

@RichardRubinDC

7 years

If you were at the beach Friday, here's your chance to read about the 6 people at the center of the GOP tax plan.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Some of us have been thinking about productivity @jwmason1 's way all along (but labor-labor subs. is a mixed bag):

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@reihan

7 years

Fingers crossed that this becomes conventional wisdom, because it's true. Problem is that momentum for laissez-faire approach is strong.

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@reihan

7 years

This would gain more traction if it were being backed by someone other than Cruz.

Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur

7 years

NEW: @TedCruz pitches Republican leaders on allowing low-cost insurance plans that don't comply with Obamacare.

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7 years

Re-upping @BlakeSeitz 's excellent piece on Georgia's 6th CD (in @NRO ):

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@reihan

7 years

I'm torn by backlash against THE BIG SICK. Much of it is overwrought and humorless. OTOH, it's a bad movie that's been overpraised.

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@reihan

7 years

Clarifying questions from @Avik re: outsized role of the mandate penalty.

Avik Roy

@Avik

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According to CBO, spending $616B on an Obamacare replacement has no net effect on coverage. Really? @forbesopinion

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Smart framework for understanding intra-Democratic Party debates:

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@reihan

7 years

Or Canada (which cut the GST under Harper) or Australia (where it's remained at the same low rate since it was established in 2000).

Kyle Pomerleau

@kpomerleau

7 years

The U.S. with a VAT would probably be more like Switzerland than France.

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@reihan

7 years

Fascinating report:

MigrationPolicy Inst

@MigrationPolicy

7 years

More than 10m #Filipinos live abroad today—about 10% of the country’s population: @poeaNews

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@reihan

7 years

@bradplumer I'm shocked that you're not a passive house devotee. Widely used in Germany, growing in North America. See

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@reihan

7 years

The hard currency is coming from somewhere:

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@reihan

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Yes, this brings to mind @joshchafetz on "The Phenomenology of Gridlock":

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(FYI, Buckley was 39 when he ran for mayor of New York in '65.)

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Chris, you might have to run for governor.

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Juche/things are gonna get easier/juuuuche things will get brighter/some day we'll walk in the rays of some other Kim Jong

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Hmmm. Perhaps Cohn is sold on the virtues of a high-pressure economy:

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MBD ( @michaelbd ) on Bannon's firing: a bit like "The Situation" threatening to leave the Jersey Shore house?

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@reihan

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. @TheKingsCollege hosted @JohnFPfaff (), @JFormanJr (), and S. Bibas ()

Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Stephanos Bibas (Part 4...

The Center for the Study of Human Flourishing hosted a panel discussion entitled "Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Race and Justice Beyond the New...

www.youtube.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

8 months

If you want to understand the changing nature of America's drug crisis, play close attention to the work of @CharlesFLehman :

The State of the Drug Crisis | Charles Fain Lehman & Reihan Salam

For residents of American cities, the stench of cannabis smoke on the streets has noticeably escalated in recent years. Even more concerning is the growing p...

www.youtube.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

@brianmcarney @JonHaidt @Rob_Richie There's a range of PR systems. PR-STV (this one, used in Ireland) is radically unlike those in Italy/Belgium. Same for MMP in NZ & Germany.

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@m_clem @SatishCha

What Fiji Can Teach America About Immigration

Many people will invest in their own skills if they know that doing so will give them a shot at a better life overseas.

www.theatlantic.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Renewed migrant crisis will be a crucial first test for Macron:

National Review

@NRO

7 years

The Second European Migrant Crisis Begins via @ndapontesmith

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

This is cool, but (as @johnjhorton has argued) doesn't fully capture what the big platform companies do:

The problem with “it’s just an app”

Middlemen seemingly exist just to get “cut out.” Online marketplaces like Airbnb and Uber are described as middlemen, and I frequently read about how they could be replaced, say, by wor…

john-joseph-horton.com

Matthew C. Klein

@M_C_Klein

7 years

Clever idea from @RobinBHarding : regulate platform companies the same way we treat stock exchanges

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

It's great to have @RAVerBruggen and @JoshuaTMcCabe going back and forth.

Josh McCabe

@JoshuaTMcCabe

7 years

A few quick responses to @RAVerBruggen criticisms of my recent National Affairs essay. Hopefully more later.

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Passage re: support for Duterte among OFWs:

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@reihan

7 years

Absolutely fascinating, especially on involuntary part-time employment and the net tax burden on the low-paid.

Matthew C. Klein

@M_C_Klein

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The myth of the German jobs miracle <-- total hours worked down, poverty and inequality up (featuring @COdendahl )

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@reihan

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Argh, I was careless. The story is a Canadian story, and they do treat death as a realization event.

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(Needless to say, there's considerable class/family heterogeneity among Asian-American applicants as well.)

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@reihan

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This is important. Brings to mind Peter Cappelli:

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From Nicole’s column: In a city and state economy supposedly on the upswing, the securities industry shed jobs in New York last year — with 5,200 jobs in the city, or 2.7% of industry positions, disappearing. That might not be alarming by itself. But nationwide, the industry

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Really good overview of New York's subway woes from @samraskinz

Calls For Long-Term Solutions As City Transit Crisis Worsens

Governor Cuomo with MTA Chair Joe Lhota (photo: Governor's Office/Flickr) Two separate subway track fires on Monday, in the morning and evening, that le...

www.gothamgazette.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Stephen Biddle on U.S. options in Afghanistan (6/7/16, still true today):

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This is quite cool:

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Good piece by @MattFay1 (draws Jonathan Caverley's very interesting work)

Afghanistan and the Costs of War - Niskanen Center

Last night, President Donald Trump addressed the nation and claimed he was implementing a new strategy in Afghanistan that was “drastically different” than that of his predecessor. All indications...

www.niskanencenter.org

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The awesome illustration is my favorite part.

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@reihan

7 years

I really profited from @petersuderman on why video games are so appealing, but my instinctive reaction is the same as @WilcoxNMP 's.

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@Nate_Cohn Benefits of PR outweigh costs, and over time voters learn to navigate the new system.

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@Nate_Cohn I'd love to read your critique of RCV/STV. STV has worked quite well in Ireland and in local government.

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Time for Trumpism 2.0? (in @Slate )

A Template for a Trump White House That’s Independent From the Republican Party

Edward Luttwak’s bracing polemic in the Times Literary Supplement on why Donald Trump won the presidency, and why we can expect a Trump dynasty to rule...

slate.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Ciepley's latest is compelling (a great read), but I still he think he overstates case re: consequences:

The Corporate Contradictions of Neoliberalism - American Affairs Journal

In The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism—a canonical work of economic sociology in the 1970s and ’80s—Daniel Bell argued that the productive and consumptive sides of capitalism had fallen into...

americanaffairsjournal.org

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Well said @elilehrerdc

Trump Scraps Obama-Era Rule To Protect Infrastructure From Climate-Change Flooding

A Republican congressman from Florida has denounced the move as "irresponsible."

www.huffpost.com

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

7 years

Chris Pope's proposal for a bipartisan Obamacare deal:

The Case for Abolishing Obamacare's Individual Mandate

The GOP should embrace bipartisan health care efforts, but Obamacare’s individual mandate has got to go. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the repeal of the individual mandate...

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Kudos to MOVE NY for making the case. Fingers crossed that this goes somewhere.

Cuomo Calls Manhattan Traffic Plan an Idea ‘Whose Time Has Come’ (Published 2017)

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is advocating new tolls on some of the city’s busiest areas, a plan that could generate millions of dollars for repairing the subway.

www.nytimes.com

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Max Bloom's two cheers for meritocracy (in @NRO ):

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