Politics
- US:
- Whatever you may think of identity politics, he is a great writer: The First White President
- Trump’s White Identity Politics and the Conservative “Welfare” Bait and Switch
- The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools and Disappointing Facts about the Black-White Wage Gap
- It’s All About Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents
- Immigrants gave the government personal details to get DACA. Will it be used to deport them?
- How Washington Blew Its Best Chance to Fix Immigration
- What Drives Opposition to Immigration? In-Group Favoritism, Out-Group Hostility, and Donald Trump
- How to Get Rich in Trump’s Washington and Trump gets millions from golf members. CEOs and lobbyists get access to president
- The Socialist Experiment
- US Army unprepared to deal with Russia in Europe
- The end of the alt-right: Goodbye, Pepe
- Korea:
- Europe:
- How Angela Merkel is changing, and not changing, Germany and Six Charts To Help Americans Understand The Upcoming German Election
- Rise and fall of populism
- Trojan horse: the real story behind the fake ‘Islamic plot’ to take over schools
- Brexit:
- Great Britain’s Fantastic Four
- Long read: The unpredictable three months ahead
- Summer is over: now Brexit gets serious
- Why is the [UK] government so afraid to publish its Brexit impact studies?
- Home Office document exposes heart of Theresa May’s Brexit
- How Chocolate Exposes Brexit Trade Risks
- Mutual recognition: can the UK have its Brexit cake and eat it?
- Liam Fox: Britain does not have capacity to strike trade deals now
- Europe’s other half lives offline — and that’s everyone’s problem
- Africa and Middle East:
- Asia:
- Germany’s “Remote-Control” Terror Attacks, Online Chats Revealed
- A uranium bank just opened in Kazakhstan to stop the spread of nukes
- Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror
Economics & Finance
- Researchy bits:
- What We Get Wrong About Technology
- Where Have All the Workers Gone? An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate (pdf)
- Gains from trade: evidence from nineteenth century Japan
- Population Growth and Inflation (pdf)
- Lending without creditor rights, collateral, or reputation—The “trusted-assistant” loan in 19th century China (pdf)
- Why people mismanage credit-card debt
- Sticky cities: “Resetting the Urban Network,” G. Michaels & F. Rauch (2017)
- A new paradigm for the introductory course in economics
- Inequality bits:
- Power, policy, and top income shares
- Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality in England and Wales: 2015
- The Untapped Math Skills of Working Children in India: Evidence, Possible Explanations, and Implications (pdf)
- The generation game
- To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now
- New York’s wealthy plagued by self-doubt
- Policy bits:
- The Persistence of Global Imbalances
- Germany’s Missing €500 billion
- Who withdraws money from distressed banks?
- Why Bother With Stocks in Vancouver’s Relentless Housing Market?
- No rupees left behind
- My guide to the debate raging over China’s Northeast rust belt
- China’s Nigerian Misadventures
- Vietnam’s SOE sale gathers pace
- How a Disaster’s Economic Impacts Are Calculated
- Financy bits:
- Just bits:
- Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System (pdf)
- ECB & BoJ: Payment systems: liquidity saving mechanisms in a distributed ledger environment
- The Bear Case for Crypto
- Paris Hilton backs an eyebrow-raising crypto project
- Bitcoin’s Golden Future
- Oh, and Finance Geeks Will Love This New Movie About the Tulip Bubble
Science & Tech
- Yeay, yeah, you probably know this already, but: Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scientist’s Crib Sheet
- What the Rumored Neutron Star Merger Might Teach Us
- How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?
- The Moon Is Full of Money
- Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire (also, If I look at the 1960’s, I can see a distinct style of fashion and furniture, as I can with the 70’s, 80’s, etc. Did ancient Romans have the same change of domestic tastes every decade, or did trends change on a slower basis?)
- Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
- When Will Voyager Stop Calling Home? and what next?: Beyond Voyager
- The Parasite That Wires Plants Together
- Man flu, headaches and heart attacks: Health issues affect men and women differently
- Facebook’s Secret Rule of Deletion
- Just smile: In KFC China store, diners have new way to pay and Face Recognition Spots Wanted Suspects at Qingdao Beer Festival
Misc
- My pick this week: This starts out funny, but oh boy… The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
- Social Justice and Clickbait: Mic’s drop
- What happens when you tell google you have an alcohol problem: Searching for help
- Japan Is No Place for Single Mothers
- Ever wondered why e-sports is so much bigger in Korea than in Japan? If not for yakuza laws, Japan could be cleaning up in e-sports ring
- NZ law could disqualify all Australians from their Parliament
- Must be this obese to enter: Asians are treated differently based on their weight, study says
- Al Gore’s New Movie Exposes The Big Flaw In Online Movie Ratings
- America’s First Addiction Epidemic
- Gatekeeper Moms, Why Some Mothers Shut Fathers Out Of Caring For Kids
- Ukrainian veterans’ war within
- Theater of War
- How the Meat Industry Thinks About Non-Meat-Eaters
- The princess myth: Hilary Mantel on Diana
- How a Black-Card Wannabe Went Down In Flames
- Are these the world’s worst cities?
- Analyst Rightly Grew Suspicious of Gorgeous Woman Who Laughed at His Accounting Jokes
- Jared Kushner’s Harvard Admissions Essay (and Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash)
