RIP Marcia Lucas, the genius who edited Star Wars (1977) Return of the Jedi (1983), THX 1138 (1971), American Graffiti (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), and Taxi Driver (1976). She won the editing Oscar for Star Wars. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/m...

Da'Aron Fox is normally very fast but with a bum ankle is slow, and it turns out that slow Da'Aron Fox is not nearly as good at basketball.

now they've gone too far www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Also, some of us are just trying not to give other people the exact colds we pick up from frequent travel.

I just fixed my cat's favorite toy by cracking it open, stripping and splicing a snapped wire, capping, and wrapping in electrical tape. Is this what Ron Swanson feels like every day?

You love to see it: "Orban's media empire crumbles after Hungary election defeat" www.reuters.com/business/med...

Abraham Lincoln on the 19th-century anti-immigrant "Know Nothing" Party, which saw immigrants as seeking to impose Catholicism and thus destroy America's society and culture. (Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 1855)

There is no sport that trolls its own fans quite so hard as English soccer

No, AI will probably not kill the research paper, he said, gleefully introducing the Recursive Dundee Theory of economic research history economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/05/11/w...

One of the perks of modern academic economics is that 99% of the papers in top journals are brilliantly executed. That fills me with pride in my profession. But that also means that when you find yourself reading a bad paper in a top journal, the sense of injustice knowing what they've rejected...

In case anyone is interested, here’s a thread on my research about 1960s civil rights protests (inspired in no small part by my parents’ work): bsky.app/profile/owas... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Because the Convention Against Torture prevented her from being deported to Colombia, ICE instead packed her onto a bus and tried to abandon her in Mexico." Mexico wouldn't take her, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo will.

Is this the most costly policy to date? Not even close. But there is an, dare I say, elegance to the stupidity on display here that gives it a real claim to being the stupidesst policy yet.

Data from 1962 to 2014 and a new identification strategy show increased trade significantly reduces the probability and intensity of conflicts between nations, from Ling Feng, Qiuyue Huang, Zhiyuan Li, and Christopher M. Meissner www.nber.org/papers/w35078

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Exactly one year ago today:

My most conspirational archaeological belief is that the antiquity of humans in the Americas is subject to the Millikan oil drop experiment dynamic (see Feynman on this)

It's really an indictment of the English soccer media that it took an American journalist 5000 miles away to write this piece, 18 months too late (No shade on O'Hanlon, this is an excellent piece, just we've been screaming about this online for YEARS)

“I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence if ever…there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’” ~Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on his 4/12/1945 tour of the Nazis’ Ohrdruf concentration camp. Image: Eisenhower Pres. Library.

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

I know the answer to the broken culture of English football refereeing/deliberate injury/faking of injury isn't to introduce hockey-style fighting... but man, if we're not going to hand out red cards, the least we can do let someone punch them in the face

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

This is an appropriate statement.

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

At this point, an MOC or Senator who doesn’t vote to impeach and remove from office is complicit in war crimes and possibly genocide if he goes ahead with this.

Foreign students *subsidize* domestic students. Without them college will be *more* expensive and there will be *fewer* spots.

Reminder that Italy during autarchy sucked. Wood was used in place of flour or coffee. This was in 36-39, before ww2. Most People would eat meat twice a year. Globalization is good, any wretched form of purity/self-sufficiency kills.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

The immediate problem with AI in academic economics publishing isn't AI writing papers, it's AI writing referee reports for journals. economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/03/30/t...

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I sort of love how many articles these days are "Here's a counterintuitive take - what if conventional economics is applicable to the modern world?"

An Afghan asylum seeker hopes that “one day my children will live in a world that sees refugees not as a burden, but as human beings who survived the unimaginable.” George Packer tells her story:

This is why you have to wait a few decades to a make a "Death of Stalin"-style dark comedy. It's currently beyond parody, but given enough time it will seem too tragically silly to be real

the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house

The top 1% most knowledgeable of the Spurs fanbase would be superior to the current manager. And that is a grave insult to what should ostensibly be an elite professional

“Everywhere I went in New York people openly loathed the very sight of me. So naturally I concluded that the entire city had gone crazy and I left. There was no other possible explanation.”

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.

Missed this when it came out a few months ago, but it's stunning reporting. Vividly captures how Trump and Miller have unleashed violence and chaos on these communities -- and how their lawless goons exact retribution on anyone who gets in their way, even unintentionally. Bovino should be in prison.

Remember all those cool random civilians who challenged Dominique Wilkins to impromptu dunk contests for a million dollars a pop in the mid 80s? Neither do I.

Blood all over this guy's hands. An awful, opportunistic, demonstrably flawed neo-Malthusian take that fueled generations of Polite Eugenics because "There are too many people!" is an argument inseparable from a follow-up conversation about *which* people are too numerous.

The simple answer here is not to use an algorithm for your social media feed.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

New @nber.org WP out from Bocar Ba today. I edited several rounds on this paper and remain so impressed that while lots of economists have frozen or relabeled their research agendas related to racial equity, Bocar has held steady. He's brave and I'm proud to be his editor www.nber.org/papers/w34933

Speculative markets exists to flatten the volatility of commodities, reveal information, and offer a mechanism to hedge your plans. But it also serves as a honey trap for hubris. And there is no greater hubris than thinking you can predict the logic of this administration.

I would love to see a version of this where they asked americans to evaluate i) their fellow citizens from their state and ii) fellow citizens from all other states.

I'm interdisciplinary af, but this from public health makes no sense to me. The problem isn't not using causal language with observational data. The problem is not attempting to use causal identification strategies with that data. The econ toolkit isn't perfect, but it is better than language edits

And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"