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Why on Earth does Trump want to cancel the CHIPS Act??

Trumpism is kakistocracy

Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s

Thinking about "temporary hardship"

If Trump loses the election, our nation can finally rest

On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control

Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk

Realistically, how much damage could Trump do to the U.S. economy?

How long can we sustain economic growth?

A better way to build a downtown

EVs are just going to win

The free world teeters on the edge of a knife

What remains of the progressive project?

A Nobel for the big big questions

At least five interesting things to start your week (#51)

Against steelmanning

Announcing the winners of our semiconductor policy contest!

In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear

The Democrats are a strong party, the Republicans are a weak party

What if everyone is wrong about what AI does?

Let us pause to appreciate the remarkable U.S. economy

Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!

Make-work is not the future of work

At least five interesting things to start your week (#50)

Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP

Strategies to secure America's supply chains

America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen

Let go of the nuclear retrofuture

How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration?

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#49)

The dark vision of America

Four thoughts on Eurosclerosis

Harris needs to be Pennsylvania fracking's biggest champion

Xi Jinping vs. macroeconomics

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#48)

Yes, Haitians are good enough to be Americans

Six ideas for Poland

The U.S. needs to pay more attention to electronic warfare

Unrealized gains taxes are a pointless hassle

Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

How do you deal with real, actual Nazis?

Biden did stuff, and it looks like it's working so far

Progressives need to learn to take the W

Sizing up the New Axis

Anti-neoliberalism is not enough

Book review: "Ender's Game"

At least five interesting things to start your week (#47)

Why you should not ignore economists

What's up with those revised job numbers?

A data-driven case for productivity optimism

The Democrats embraced patriotism after all

Harris has the right idea on housing

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#46)

Harris makes a big mistake by embracing price controls

Mass deportation would accomplish nothing

New Industrialist Roundup 2024

Some thoughts on the future of the tech industry

How tariffs on China could help the world

The Democrats' new sunny vibes

The U.S. economy is not crashing

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)

Why America fell behind in drones, and how to catch up again

How Maduro and Chavez wrecked Venezuela's economy

Who's "weird"?

Why did the U.S. miss the battery revolution?

The new progressive economics: some constructive criticism

Come see me speak about Japan!

Why Trump (or Harris) might fail to stand up to China

Yes, we still have to work

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#44)

Biden's legacy: a summary

Don’t Rock the Vote

Bad and good arguments for industrial policy

Understanding the new Tech Right

Europe's fate is in Germany's hands now

How can America be stabilized?

There's not that much wealth in the world

Skilled immigration is a national security priority

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#43)

Let's evaluate the whole Republican party platform!

Energy Bell: The sketch of an idea

Why has U.S. manufacturing productivity stagnated for over a decade?

Assessing the threats to the Republic

At least five interesting things to start your week (#42)

The elemental foe

Time to think about a second Trump term

The age of SASEA

Yes, of course crime is way down

The triumph of electromagnetism over thermodynamics

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#41)

Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips!

China's demographics will be fine through mid-century

Noam Chomsky and the end of "America bad"

Why some franchises go downhill while others stay great

Is the West falling behind in science?

How not to be fooled by viral charts, Part 2

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#40)

Three holes in the U.S.' economic strategy against China

Decade of the Battery

Trump and inflation

How many of our "facts" about society, health, and the economy are fake?

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#39)

How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it?

A preview of the next four years?

Climate is just one piece of industrial policy

Happy fun Cold War 2 update

The case of the angry history postdoc

At least five interesting things to start your week (#38)

A pivotal moment for Japan's national defense

How to devalue the dollar

How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century

In which British writers scold America on trade

At least five interesting things to start your week (#37)

Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?

Seven reasons America is headed for a more conservative decade

The Big Tariffs are here

How I would regulate AI

The death (again) of the internet as we know it

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#36)

The macro arsonists

Japan is not a xenophobic country

America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece

The positive case for Joe Biden

Who's afraid of East Asian management culture?

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#35)

Is Japan having a currency crisis?

Biden is right that we need to raise taxes

What America needs to do now on national security

Palestine is the end of the line for the New Left

At least five interesting things to start your week (#34)

How Latin America started to beat inequality

Five things to be optimistic about in America today

Why China is defeating Tesla

Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense

Sizing up the New Axis

Twilight of the economists?

Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war

At least five interesting things to start your week (#33)

Why is the U.S. doing so much deficit spending?

The U.S. would be insane to go it alone on trade and manufacturing

The perverse incentives of euthanasia

Try patriotism

Why did the world break in the early 2010s?

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#32)

The biggest advantage of independent op-ed writers

Secrets of Japanese urbanism (part 2)

Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper

The decade of the Second China Shock

Go read some Vernor Vinge

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#31)

Are "luxury beliefs" a real thing?

How we could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s

Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI

Three threats to the age of energy abundance

What just happened in San Francisco politics?

2024 Noahpinion subscriber survey!

Trump just rug-pulled the China hawks on TikTok

At least five things for your weekend (#30)

Why Japanese cities are such nice places to live

Chinasplaining will backfire

Defending the status quo is not environmentalism

Did immigration bring down inflation?

Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market

Getting past the 2010s

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#29)

New technologies, new totalitarians

Japan and South Korea need nuclear weapons

This is not a good way to fight racism in America

Japan isn't quite "back", but it has a fighting chance

Book review: "Power and Progress"

At least five interesting things to start your week (#28)

We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology

Pakistan needs a plan

Russia is not actually a very nice place to live

A bunch of handy charts about climate change

2024 could be the pivotal year for Cold War 2

The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland

Do poor countries need a new development strategy?

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#27)

Tariffs are coming

Economic losses for our allies are not wins for the U.S.

Three reasons the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates soon

Biden should run on a message of abundance

Interview: Sarah C. Paine

America, please be reasonable on immigration

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#26)

Will China squander its moment in the sun?

A vote for Trump is a vote for chaos

The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd

The California Forever project is a great idea

Does the yield curve tell us a recession is coming soon?

Is U.S. industrial policy learning from its mistakes?

At least five interesting things to start your week (#25)

Bitcoin is a special-interest group

World commerce is dependent on America's fading naval power

Techno-optimism for 2024

People's Park and the Great American Infill

How much of modern academia is waste?

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24)

All futurism is Afrofuturism

Toward a shallower future