There are a few modest signs of progress in the UK (and Canada): Ministers are exploring using the powers of parliament to cut the time it takes to approve new railways, power stations and other infrastructure projects. In an attempt to promote growth, the government is examining whether it could …
I view the Big Beautiful Bill of Trump as one of the most radical experiments in fiscal policy in my lifetime. In essence, Trump has decided to push all of his chips to the center of the table and bet on the American economy. I would not have proposed this …
Second, and even more detrimental to younger generations, is a set of policies that have artificially created a highly damaging cult of housing. For many decades, too few houses have been built in the UK. Thanks in part to the tax system, housing has been transformed from a place to …
1. Avant-garde perfume. 2. Okie-dokie (NYT). 3. A while back Coleman Hughes took me to play a speed chess hustler in Washington Square Park. Here is that game on chess.com. I am White. 4. “Positive review only” prompts in papers. 5. New Alex Rosenberg book on economic method and game …
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant features have been little discussed. Trump Accounts are one such feature under which every newborn citizen gets $1000 invested in the stock market. These accounts could radically change social welfare …
I would call this a story of negative emotional contagion: This paper investigates the growing role of emotions in shaping policy views. Analyzing social citizens’ media postings and political party messaging over a large variety of policy issues from 2013 to 2024, we document a sharp rise in negative emotions, …
Here is much more from Timothy Taylor.
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1. Not the kind of lottery winner you are looking for. “According to court records, Farthing strangled a girlfriend; sold cocaine to an undercover police informant; escaped from a prison work detail; bribed a corrections officer to deliver Xanax and Oxycodone into a state facility; possessed stolen firearms; and even …
This was a discussion topic at the recent and excellent Civic Future meet-up outside of London. These were my nominations of how new religious ideas might be most likely to emergen in the near future: 1. We don’t have good models for the evolution of religious thought. So bet on …
The sweeping Republican policy bill that awaits President Trump’s signature on Friday includes a little-noticed victory for the drug industry. The legislation allows more medications to be exempt from Medicare’s price negotiation program, which was created to lower the government’s drug spending. Now, manufacturers will be able to keep those …
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