Politics
- Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others? (“Controlling for target type, fatalities, and being arrested, attacks by Muslim perpetrators received, on average, 449% more coverage than other attacks.”)
- Why Do Democracies Fail?
- Brexit: The POLITICO policy guides and One Year Later: Voices from Brexit’s Front Lines and hope dies last: Britain prepares for a softer Brexit
- The EU’s position on post-Brexit citizens’ rights, the UK position and EU citizens ‘bitterly disappointed’ with post-Brexit rights offer and 8 things that point to a UK-EU deal on citizens’ rights
- The New CBO Report On Health Insurance Didn’t Do Republicans Any Favors and When Sleeping In The Car Is The Price Of A Doctor Visit and Some Stronger Evidence that [Obamacare] Worsened the Opioid Crisis
- Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault
- What’s Wrong With the Democrats? and How Democrats Gerrymandered Their Way to Victory in Maryland
- How long was China Communist? and Postcard from Beidaihe: Beach politics for China’s elite
- Modern Britain: The Dukes, their tax breaks & an £8million annual subsidy and Rehousing of Grenfell Tower families in luxury block receives mixed response
- Poland: How to Demolish an Independent Judiciary with the Help of a Constitutional Court
- Vladimir Putin’s man in the Balkans
- The CIA’s torture program, as explained by the psychologists who designed it
- Saudi Arabia’s Aggressive New Heir to the Throne and The Danger of Yemen’s Secret Prisons
- Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram
- N.H. Republicans Accidentally Approved a Bill Allowing Pregnant Women to Commit Murder
- Special Report: How the Federal Reserve serves U.S. foreign intelligence
- About intra-US mobility and politics: Those who leave home, and those who stay and Where manufacturing jobs are plentiful, Trump’s supporters want better
Economics & Finance
- Counterintuitive problem: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others.
- The Electronification of Consumer Pricing
- Treasury’s Regulation Unwind Already Having An Effect on Markets
- When trying to increase your pay was dangerous and Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain (pdf) (and The Foreign Visa Crackdown Is Putting Americans Out of Work)
- Savings bleeding out of Japan’s graying regions to Tokyo
- The Global Economy in 2067 and Bernanke: When Growth is not Enough (pdf) and Low Productivity Growth: The Capital Formation Link and Is Your Job About To Disappear?: QuickTake and How Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
- Where Does Italy’s Bank Recapitalization Stand?
- North Korea begins journey from feudalism to crony capitalism
- Germany’s low investment rate leaves its infrastructure creaking
- Obstfeld/IMF: Assessing Global Imbalances: The Nuts and Bolts
- China’s Current Account: External Rebalancing or Capital Flight? (pdf) and Is China the Most Protectionist Country? No, Not By a Long Shot and Chinese Steel Exports to the United States Dropped Dramatically in 2016
- What Will It Take to Clean China’s Air?
- How Western Union works: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Send Cash
- San Francisco Is Burning and Dense urbanism is great for downtowns. But what about suburbs? and Young families typically leave cities for the suburbs. Here’s how to keep them downtown.
- Uber’s bad week: Doomsday Scenario or Business Reset? and from HBR: Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
- The road to sound digital money
- Gold Plunges After 1.8 Million Ounces Were Traded in One Minute
- Deutsche Bank Faces Possible $60 Million Derivative Loss
- An unusual manager defies peers in Japan’s ¥97 trillion pension world
- This Is What A Bubble Looks Like: Japan 1989 Edition
- CDS and credit: Testing the small bang theory of the financial universe with micro data (pdf)
- How did Argentina pull off a 100-year bond sale?
- Canada Ponders an Unusual Drug Problem: a Shortage of Marijuana
- The Sun Won’t Pay for Trump’s Wall, Either
- Phil’s Insider-Trading Escape
- Psychopathic Traits of Corporate Leadership as Predictors of Future Stock Returns
Science & Tech
- Musk: Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species (and some pics: A Needle in a Haystack on Mars)
- What Is Space?
- The Eerie Alignment of Ancient Giant Galaxies
- Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
- Why Your Brain Hates Other People
- The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
- The Crumbling Ancient Texts That May Hold Life-Saving Cures
- Decoding the ancient astronomy of Stonehenge
- What It’s Like to Be an Ant
- Gangs of aggressive killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fish: report
- Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
- How Apple’s iPhone changed the world: 10 years in 10 charts
- Many firms hit by global cyber-attacks
- When AI Can Transcribe Everything
- What an AI’s Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like
- Concrete Problems in AI Safety (pdf)
Misc
- A weekend in Texas with ZeroHedge readers, Part 1
- The Super Predators
- In Unilever’s Radical Hiring Experiment, Resumes Are Out, Algorithms Are In
- Write Evan Ratliff tried to vanish: Here’s what happened
- Why Does North Korea Keep Photoshopping Kim Jong-un’s Ears?
- Being Donald Trump: the life of an impersonator
- Japanese CEO takes a cult underwear brand global (“a solemn management ritual takes place in which the company’s chief executive circulates the head office in his underpants”)
- How Nicholas Serota’s Tate changed Britain
- Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?
- Yorkshire resident calls police on Queen Elizabeth for not wearing seatbelt
- This morning, thousands of witches cast a spell against Donald Trump
- The Next Big Thing In Cycling Could Be Poop Doping
- Prada is getting shade for selling a $185 paper clip
- Charmin’s New On-Demand Toilet Van Lets You Poop Anywhere
- Pretty high: World Record Highest Dive Dana Kunze 172 Foot High Dive (youtube)
