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Noah Smith

Answering the looming question that's on a lot of people's minds.

An optimistic take on technology and inequality.

Someday a successful entrepreneur will make America love colorblind meritocracy and smart technocracy. Just not this one.

In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social media and cell phones

The college shakeout, China vs. its developing neighbors, Chinese zombie companies, more fun YIMBY stuff, and the victory of the Melting Pot

The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself, and it's mostly not Biden's doing.

Our low life expectancy is partly a function of the ways we deal with stress.

It's not an anti-NATO, it's not going to replace the dollar, and it's not going to control global economic growth.

"Bullshit jobs", racial depolarization, the YIMBY-union alliance, China's last boosters, Biden's foreign policy, low-carbon steel, and Javier Milei

No one has any idea how to stop the decline, so we need to prepare for the consequences.