All articles from Slow Boring
What the Spirit debate is really about
Promoting competition or promoting a return to price regulation?
The case for clean energy abundance
It’s a good idea — and strikingly different from conventional environmentalism.
There’s no place like home
As the market stalls, the dream of homeownership is apparently still alive in Kansas. But because we can’t all live in Wichita, Congress is trying to get housing back on track.
Why kids don’t go anywhere anymore
The technological and economic shifts behind helicopter parenting
Tuesday discussion post
Many discussion topics from Matt
Shmoderation is the future
Who cares what you call an eclectic politician who appeals to the hodgepodge of views of heterodox voters?
Democrats have, for now, lost the redistricting war
Can enthusiasm still let them win the House?
Hantavirus is a reminder we should prepare for the next pandemic
We’re going backward instead of forward
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Saturday discussion post
This Mother’s Day, let moms have Waymo
Moms everywhere deserve a win.
Smart girls read smut
Perhaps my most serious take
The real lesson of Spirit’s bankruptcy
Plus pragmatism for conservatives, places I haven’t been, and what’s cooking in Ann Arbor
Thursday discussion post
Here’s what you missed on X.
Matt and Jerusalem read Betty Friedan’s classic, “The Feminine Mystique”
A prescient, influential, and slightly bizarre book
Political commentary should be boring
Old man yells at podcast clouds
Are we kind of being pricks?
Everybody has a crafty way of getting around development incentives without doing any development.
Don’t copy Donald Trump’s failed presidency
The Orange Man is bad at the job.
Tuesday discussion post
On marriage
Seniors aren’t living on “fixed incomes”
It’s not 1967 anymore — the world has changed.
Trump is losing his own people
Where the races and the voters stand — with six months until Election Day.
We should pay more for the best teachers
A popular, compelling, correct idea
Not dead, just delayed
How a generation of highly educated young Americans learned to put marriage off
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Saturday discussion post
More of Halina’s hottest takes
Plus recommendations