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The economic impact of research funding cuts on red-state public universities—enormously important to local economic growth—is an undercovered story.

Never forget that the AMA is a cartel.

Same. Grew up in a rough public school district in SW Oklahoma. The honors classes were, for me, economic mobility.

It’s not that the House GOP tax plan would kill the IRA, it’s that it would hike energy prices and kill America’s energy innovation engine, nuclear resurgence, expansion of our grid, and potentially hand the 21st century to China.

FROM THE ROOFTOPS.

With all the debate around Medicaid right now, the bottom line is this: Healthcare is still far too expensive for many hardworking Americans. My dad served for 29+ years in law enforcement & saved every penny. But when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, his life savings

Isn’t the real claim about China’s 2001 wto entry? talmon joseph smith Noah Smith 🐇

My partner Serena’s mom is dying from ALS. The NIH grant supporting the scientists in my lab working hard on a cure was just terminated. No words

Important stuff from ian bremmer … perhaps bc of their obviousness, not sure folks are unspooling the national security harms w as much granularity as we need.

Building trades unions come out against Trump’s big beautiful bill and its attacks on the Inflation Reduction Act saying it will cost hundreds of thousands of union jobs. h/t Paul Prescod

True. It also opportunity for bridging unnecessary factionalism. Beyond the basics - no more tax breaks for the rich- we should do more to sweat costs. That gets quickly to questions of market structure / corporate consolidation AND to abundance-minded fixes

It is good to have the government collect high-quality longitudinal surveys of the effects of alcohol and internet use.

A quarter of all unicorn companies since 2003 (with a valuation over $1 billion) received direct US government investment at an early stage in their development, according to a new study from VC firm Commonweal Ventures pitchbook.com/news/articles/…

Kyle Chan Fascinating that the Dolphin Mini or Seagull goes for $7700 in China and $20,000 in Mexico.

Climate change is inflationary & the Fed should therefore do more from within its existing price stability mandate.

Nice post on USAID spending by Scott Alexander astralcodexten.com/p/sorry-i-stil…

Honest q: this sounds a lot like an argument to take ‘pre-distribution’ policy seriously, since ‘after tax’ redistribution has always been a sharp uphill slog politically & AI will make it far sharper. Does this soften your long-running aversion to pre-distribution as a concept?

Unpopular opinion- we need to taking climate stabilizing interventions much more seriously. Far from moral hazard, they are fast becoming a predicate for enough political stability to make headway on emissions

A common criticism of solar PV is that large-scale use will require lots of extra power plants to pick up the slack during long cloudy stretches, making the effective cost of solar PV much higher. This week on Construction Physics, I take a look at this. construction-physics.com/p/can-we-affor…

Wikipedia claims that a bill that Reagan signed as governor contributes to the state’s housing shortage