Matt Yglesias+

Friday discussion post

A scheduling shift

The Great Awokening started in 2014, not 2020

Plus price controls, a lot of Maine stuff, and what a 2028 anti-MAGA insurgency could look like

Thursday discussion post

An abundance of Matts

Politics should be more boring

It’s like drilling hard boards; it’s not supposed to be entertaining.

The “anti-social century” with Derek Thompson

What happens as people spend more and more time alone?

As one housing reform works in Texas, another in Colorado hits a budgetary hitch

What happens to the push for more housing when the budget dries up?

YIMBYs already have a bold vision for solving the housing crisis

Don’t listen to the haters — there’s nothing narrow about this.

Tuesday discussion post

Canada, data centers, and violent crime

The Western water crisis has a simple solution

Stop giving the majority of the water away to farmers for almost nothing!

Three Dan Sullivans walk into a race for Senate

And as they duke it out in Alaska, progressives win in Pennsylvania and Florida, Trump rises and falls, Michigan confronts AIPAC, Markey faces questions about his age, and a fraud fesses up.

The real reason nobody feels good about technological progress

The internet is a small miracle that in practice we mostly use to watch short-form video.

Sunday Thread + Mailbag

Ask your questions below.

Saturday discussion post

What kind of Democrat can win?

I’m genuinely asking.

Giving the people what they want (not data centers)

Plus dynamism, Rock Creek Park, and all the practical problems with abolishing ICE

Thursday discussion post

You know the drill.

Thousands of years of indoor air pollution

The too-late invention of somewhat safe ways to cook and heat with wood

Everyone hates the “elites,” but who are they?

According to voters, it’s basically just rich people.

The have-and-have-not housing market

Wealthy buyers are buying houses a million over asking with cash while everyone else watches starts fall and rates stay stubborn. Localities are experimenting with solutions to close the yawning gap.

Two kinds of moderate Democrats

There are many pragmatists, but few have the courage to say what they really think.

Tuesday discussion post

Many takes, as always

The invisible faction that dominates the Democratic Party

Meet the Progressive Establishment

Chaos theory

This week in the midterms: An upset in Wisconsin, a Saturday night massacre in Anchorage, and a G.O.P. that’s bracing for its House majority to slip away.

Woke 1 is dead. We’ve learned nothing.

Blatant indifference to facts is all too common across ideologies

Sunday Thread + Mailbag

Ask your questions below.

Saturday discussion post

What is college worth?

An enrollment cliff combined with high sticker prices no one is paying has some private colleges rethinking their tuition.

History often hinges on boring technical questions

Plus the Silicon Valley canon and the case for YIMBYing beloved vacation destinations

Thursday discussion post

Shall we talk about Crowley?

Medicare for All should be more like Medicare

A floor for health care, not a ceiling

From “Bowling Alone” to scrolling alone

Matt and Jerusalem debate the legacy

New York is building. But where?

Plus San Diego’s YIMBY mayor and recovery from wildfire displacement

Abdul El-Sayed can win moderate voters

A roadmap for getting to yes — if he makes the effort

Tuesday discussion post

The Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries are today.

The $20 burrito tearing the Republican Party apart

Trump promised lower prices and has delivered the reverse.

The left is winning primaries. Can it win general elections?

Progressive candidates came out on top in Michigan and Tennessee but fell short in Missouri. Will they keep up the pace tomorrow?

A strange gifted education success story

If expanding access works, is your program really for the “gifted”?

Sunday Thread + Mailbag

Ask your questions below.

Saturday discussion post

Theater is weird, and that’s the point.

In which I come out as a total theater nerd

In praise of commercial culture

Plus when I’d vote for a Republican, the case for generalists, and why live theater is weird now

Thursday discussion post

Trump and Melania’s favorite thrifty recipes

The message behind Christopher Nolan’s most important change to “The Odyssey”

Are we the Sea Peoples?

A look back at #MeToo

Matt and Jerusalem on the legacy of the movement

They’ve had it up to here with the NIMBYs

From Massachusetts to California to Texas, officials and investors are increasingly overcoming local resistance to build more housing.

Republicans are in too little disarray

With Trump historically unpopular, why isn’t there more infighting?

Tuesday discussion post

It’s primary day in Michigan.

Mamdani’s not the first to try to bring cheap groceries to N.Y.C.

Walmart versus the stationary bandits

Democrats are winning the polls but losing the plot

Primary voters are far more focused on fighting each other than on fighting the G.O.P.

Democrats should seize the chance to end the filibuster

A national voter ID law is nothing to fear.

Sunday Thread + Mailbag

Ask your questions below.

Saturday discussion post

12 things I’ve learned in 12 months of writing for Slow Boring

Looking back on the year

Mega-events are the new monoculture

Plus N.B.A. analytics, the Paramount deal, and the dream of stronger political parties

Thursday discussion post

What’s the deal with populist ping-pong?

How Trump made America less popular than China

Speak loudly and blunder a lot

The case against homeownership

(and why I don’t buy it)