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Raj Chetty and a cast of thousands have a new paper out that looks at economic mobility. In a nutshell, it finds that mobility has increased among Black...

Are you interested in who supports whom after today's revenge fest in the Oval Office? Here's the scorecard: That's 25-2 by my count, with Italy...

Everything is getting worse: Other counts are getting worse and I feel terrible. Nonetheless they're slow walking the immunoglobulin treatment, which I...

I watched the first half hour of tonight's debate between California governor Gavin Newsom and Florida governor Ron DeSantis, but that was all I could...

Data is the linchpin of this blog. But where does it all come from? Here are the primary sources I use to gather data and create charts. FRED The FRED database...

Here it is compared to the previous three presidents:¹ He's right on track. ¹As usual, I've left off George W. Bush because of the huge...

I think we all figured from the start that handling the COVID-19 pandemic would be tough. Developing a vaccine would be tough. But once the virus was on the...

June 30, 2019 — Surprising news in Beverly…

The soda wars, begun they have: At both state and federal levels, the Kennedy-led Make America Healthy Again movement is backing efforts to prevent people from...

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Matthew Yglesias wonders why Obama didn't push for a debt ceiling increase when he had the chance last year: It didn't happen. Obama said he trusted John...

In addition to blogging, I've written a number of long-form magazine pieces over the years. Most, but not all of them were for Mother Jones. This page...

Why does Easter move around? The short answer is that the Bible suggests Jesus was resurrected on the third day after Passover, and since Passover moves...

My interest in astrophotography is exclusively with Deep Space Objects. These are objects outside the solar system: primarily nebulas, galaxies, star clusters,...

I had a bit of insomnia last night and produced this fine reenactment of old-school blogging: This chart shows the change in federal spending during every...

August 3, 2021 — Above Newark Airport just before arrival. The view through the window looks east across the Passaic river, the Hackensack river, Skyway...

Big news from the Wall Street Journal! But how long has this Twitter holiday been? Inquiring minds want to know and the Journal is here to tell us: The...

Language nerds have long railed against the use of podium to refer to the thing you stand behind when you're talking to people. That's a lectern,...

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