Pluralistic: Of course we can tax billionaires (15 Oct 2024)

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Of course we can tax billionaires: They disguise their demands ("don't tax billionaires") as observations ("it is technically impossible to tax billionaires").
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Pluralistic: When prophecy fails, election polling edition (26 Sep 2024)

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When prophecy fails, election polling edition: Again? Bullwinkle, that trick NEVER works.
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Pluralistic: Sphinxmumps Linkdump (15 Jun 2024)

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Sphinxmumps Linkdump: My weekly declaration of link bankruptcy.
This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2023
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Pluralistic: The Pizzaburger Presidency (29 May 2024)

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The Pizzaburger Presidency: Why the Biden administration talks so very little about the very small number of very good things it has done.
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This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Pluralistic: 28 Sep 2021

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Democrats can pass the reconciliation today (sorta): A bet on the 'endowment effect.'
This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 28 Jun 2021

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Podcasting "Qualia": My column on quant-bias, antitrust, drug policy and epidemiology.
Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer: We're not paying you to party on donors' yachts.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 05 Jan 2021

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My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.
Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.
South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.
Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.
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