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Parachute

By Lyn Stoler

An investigation into how our cities can become beautiful, resilient, and livable in the face of climate change.

A fun blog about sustainability and urbanism

- Noah Smith

Sustainability by numbers

By Hannah Ritchie

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

Hannah Ritchie's excellent data-driven blog about the transition to a sustainable economy

- Noah Smith

Bulwark+

By The Bulwark

Analysis and reporting on politics and culture in America. No partisan loyalties. No tribal prejudices.

A centrist magazine

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Breaking the News

By James Fallows

Dispatches from a veteran reporter

James Fallows is one of the best reporters and essayists I've read.

- Noah Smith

The Discourse Lounge

By Darrell Owens

I analyze housing affordability, transportation, culture and urban living. Among other things.

An excellent blog about housing and urban issues, and (occasionally) about social trends, from the excellent Darrell Owens

- Noah Smith

Volts

By David Roberts

A newsletter & podcast about the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. Twice a week, give or take.

David Roberts' climate blog. My favorite resource for climate stuff.

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Economic Forces

Pondering price theory, past and present. A weekly newsletter covering all things economics.

A fun economics blog

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What's New Under the Sun

By Matt Clancy

What academia knows* about innovation

Matt Clancy's excellent blog about the economics of science and technology.

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Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Passion and Perspective from Matthew Yglesias

Matt Yglesias' blog. 'Nuff said!

- Noah Smith

The Climate Brink

By Andrew Dessler

The Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future

A blog by two great climate scientists and forecasters

- Noah Smith

Progress and Poverty

By Joseph Addington

Exploring the implications of Georgism in the modern world

Georgism!

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The Overshoot

By Matt Klein

Making sense of the global economy and financial markets

Matt C. Klein's econ blog. Lots of good charts and macro stuff.

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Ground Truths

By Eric Topol

Facts, data, and analytics about Covid and other biomedical matters.

A truly excellent blog about medical technology

- Noah Smith

The Weekly Anthropocene

By Sam Matey

Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.

Great interviews about the intersection between technology and environmentalism

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One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Translating academic research into mostly useful insights, with some ephemera on the side. Mostly AI stuff recently. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is a great source of interesting social science research.

- Noah Smith

Phillips’s Newsletter

By Phillips P. OBrien

Whatever intrigues me--these days the Russo-Ukraine War with regular departures

A good newsletter for updates on the Ukraine war.

- Noah Smith

A Causal Affair

By Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Causal Inference, Coding and Consumer Finance

Another great econ blog, with an academic focus.

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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

The first economics blog, and still probably the best.

- Noah Smith

Matt Alt's Pure Invention

Dispatches from the front lines of Japanese pop culture.

A fun blog about Japanese pop culture, for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing

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Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Tech, web3, optimism, and strategy... but Not Boring

The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress—a digest of posts from rootsofprogress.org

Jason Crawford's newsletter about progress

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Full Stack Economics

By Timothy B Lee

A newsletter about technology, economics, and policy.

Erdmann Housing Tracker

By Kevin Erdmann

How housing costs got here and where they're going.

A great blog about housing with lots of data

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CalculatedRisk Newsletter

By CalculatedRisk Real Estate News

Real Estate Data and Analysis

A great classic newsletter about housing and other economic stuff

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Scott's Substack

By Scott Cunningham (Professor

Deep dives into econometrics and empirical papers ("explainers"), an oral history of economics podcast told through economists' personal stories, announcements about workshops, and random ChatGPT things.

A great blog on empirical economics.

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Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

A great aggregation of news and ideas related to technological progress, by Jim Pethokoukis.

- Noah Smith

Construction Physics

By Brian Potter

Why buildings are built the way they are.

Brian Potter explains the construction industry, and plenty of urbanist stuff along the way.

- Noah Smith