Slow Boring — Archive

Some midterm updates

It’s dirty, it’s not cheap, it’s not a good idea.

President’s Day is a bad holiday — and a symptom of a bad system.

How Hallmark turned our cultural anxieties into a multibillion-dollar holiday

Plus cooking, the Wizards, the auto industry, and Trump’s threat to the election

A good response to that S.F. Fed letter

Voters have weird views about this, and progressive advocacy groups do a lot that’s counterproductive.

Bipartisan breakthrough in Washington, implementation chaos in California, rent control revival in Massachusetts, and a case against abundance

Root for Team U.S.A., don’t let Trump own the flag

Olympic-level gossip

A case for more antitrust enforcement

“Stop running candidates who excite the base but lose in the general.”