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Matthew Yglesias hosts Slow Boring, a news show with 17 episodes published.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com In this week’s episode of The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas just wants to buy a car and is mad as hell that the American government has de fac
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com Spirit Airlines is dead, and the right, true to form, is blaming Joe Biden. But the proximate cause is very clear: The war with Iran spiked
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com Jerusalem and I had an idea. What if we went back and read a classic, massively influential, widely discussed political book that neither o
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com Donald Trump practices a form of foreign policy without much in the way of high ideals. He’s nakedly transactional, speaks openly of steali
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com One nice thing about podcasting is that you can talk through ideas that seem important but where your own thoughts are a bit unsettled. Jer
The Supreme Court formally rejected affirmative action in college admissions in the 2023 case of Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard, but the legal case did not resolve the larger dispute in American society or neces
Starting next Thursday, April 9, I’m going to be doing a brand new podcast with my friend Jerusalem Demsas. It’s called The Argument — like the magazine, The Argument — and we’re going to argue about some stuff. Is affir
I was still semi-addled with an MLK Weekend case of the flu this afternoon when I recorded with Nate Silver about what has and hasn’t surprised us so far in the Trump administration. So it’s possible that my points do no
It was a lot of fun to chat with Crooked Media’s Jon Lovett, mostly about American students’ falling test scores and the ways that post-Obama Democrats have gotten away from talking about the core function of the K-12 sc
Noah Smith is probably the number one source of articles that hit my feed where I think “damn, I wish I’d written that.” So it was great to grab a chance to sit down and chat with him for almost 90 minutes today. We star
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com Thanks to everyone who tuned in for my live video with Katelyn Jetelina! She writes the Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter which is a gre
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com Thanks for everyone who joined yesterday’s live interview with Rep. Ritchie Torres, I thought it was a fascinating discussion. Torres is yo
I sat down at around 11pm Eastern time yesterday with my friend Brian Beutler of Off Message to record a special live episode of our podcast Politix and thought I would make it our official content for this morning. We w
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com We talked for 75 minutes but the upshot is just that the election is close.
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Jerusalem Demsas
The Atlantic
2 appearances on this show
Nate Silver
writer, statistician, founder of FiveThirtyEight · FiveThirtyEight
2 appearances on this show
Jon Lovett
co-founder · Pod Save America
1 appearance on this show
Noah Smith
economic writer · Colorado Film and Video Association
1 appearance on this show
Katelyn Jetelina
epidemiologist and scientific communicator · Your Local Epidemiologist
1 appearance on this show
Ritchie Torres
Representative for NY-15, South Bronx · D-NY
1 appearance on this show
Kathryn Paige Harden
Professor of Psychology · University of Texas at Austin
1 appearance on this show
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