Politics
- Making Athens Great Again
- Donald Trump: Peronist? A chat with Sebastian Edwards on populist economics (transcript) and My conversations with Russians about Donald Trump
- Our Miserable 21st Century and American Carnage and There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble
- The Appeal of Trumpism to Traditionalists
- The “Travel Ban” Executive Order as Separation-of-Powers Test Case
- No easy answers: why left-wing economics is not the answer to right-wing populism
- How Did China Lose South Korea?
- Where did the money go? How Greece fumbled the refugee crisis
- The Italian Constitutional Court judgement on the ‘Italicum’ electoral law: another new reform for Italy?
- You tell me it’s the institution
- This Article Won’t Change Your Mind
Economics & Finance
- The Fundamental Institutions of China’s Reforms and Development (pdf) and Beijing, Washington Face Similar Economic Challenges
- Capitalism and Socialism: A Review of Kornai’s Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy
- An Australia–Indonesia FTA is only for the patient
- Schäuble: Germany, the G20, and Inclusive Globalization
- The Case for Fiscal Policy to Support Structural Reforms
- The Politics of Infrastructure
- The White House Takes Its Attacks On Jobs Data To A New (And Dangerous) Level
- Daily Mail: Growing calls for [BoE] deputy governor to resign as top bankers pile on the pressure
- White men ‘endangered species’ on UK boards, warns Tesco chairman (White men have become an “endangered species” at the top of British business, according to Tesco chairman John Allan, one of eight white men who sit on the retailer’s board.)
- The Mispriced Risk of Infectious Diseases
- Why Bitcoin lost 15 percent of its value in a few minutes
- Macroprudential policy beyond banking
- Iceland Exits Krona Controls Eight Years After Banking Crash
- Big Tobacco Has Caught Startup Fever (It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions.)
- Sell! Buy! Markets hate complex headlines
Science & Tech
- Ingenious (What if instead of getting a [standard] report card, instead of getting A’s B’s and C’s and, D’s—hopefully not D’s, but—you got a report card [that] said your propensity for getting an A is 7 percent.) and Scientists rewrote the DNA of an entire species
- Our Universe’s Very Dusty Early, Early Beginnings
- This Moon Orbiting Saturn Looks a Lot Like Ravioli
- Everything About Mars Is The Worst
- Why Women Weren’t Allowed to Be Astronauts
- Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule
- Inside the Heads of People Who Don’t Like Music
- Does Salvaging Scorched Trees Hurt the Environment?
- Massive Statue of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Found in City Slum
- Car Wars
Misc
- All win probability models are wrong — Some are useful
- How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost It All
- City of Spies
- What Hospitals Waste
- Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return Home
- The untold story of the world’s biggest diamond heist
- Can Someone Be Tried for Trying to Harm a Mannequin? Las Vegas Is Finding Out
- Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers
- Will Pope Francis Allow Married Men to Become Priests?
- Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children
- Hot story: Miami lawyer’s pants erupt in flames during arson trial in court
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