Favorite Rejects 2022-01-11

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Having emerged from its Thirty Years' War, the Middle East is now performing its Stately Quadrille...

nationalinterest.orgMaking Sense of the Middle East’s ‘Great Reset’In a sense, what we are observing is a temporary freezing of regional conflicts, rather than the successful outcome of genuine efforts to resolve them.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In one sense this is good news for liberals, who have now definitively won the argument over which side is more indulgent of cranks and nutjobs in a way that wasn't clearly true in the 90s or the aughts. slowboring.com/p/vaccines-wer…

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

the one point that kept coming up, across both groups, was a desire to find person responsible for attack. That person/people, the fg participants said, needed to be held accountable, and they weren't sure they had been. That's probably the point that will frustrate Ds the most

Stan Oklobdzija @stan_okl

Yeah, I got a 401k to make housing more affordable in Colorado and it's called build 401k new homes in the Denver metro area.

coloradosun.comA 401(k) for homeownership? Colorado housing leaders offer up solutions to affordability problem.Giving employers a tax break to help workers buy homes could help ease the state’s housing crisis, a group convened by Colorado’s U.S. senators says

JohnQuiggin @JohnQuiggin

Regular observation: Any reversible physical process is an energy storage technology. That's why concerns about the variability of wind and solar power will come to nothing in the end canarymedia.com/articles/long-…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is because the NYT sabotaged me by assigning the review to an Englishman who wants to keep us weak so they can tax our tea.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I wouldn't way this is @mattyglesias's fault, but in the 16 months since "One Billion Americans" came out, we've moved in the opposite direction from what he advocated. Both immigration rates and fertility have been falling sharply.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I firmly believe that if Republicans win a majority in a fair election it would be entirely appropriate for them to govern without deferring to the Democratic minority — many countries work this way!

Frank Thorp V @frankthorp

ROMNEY: "There is also a reasonable chance Republicans will win both houses in Congress and that Donald Trump himself could once again be elected president in 2024. Have Democrats thought what it would mean for them, for the Democrat minority to have no power whatsoever?"

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Kroger's profit margin is 1.52%

Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren

What happens when only a handful of giant grocery store chains like @Kroger dominate an industry? They can force high food prices onto Americans while raking in record profits. We need to strengthen our antitrust laws to break up giant corporations and lower prices. https://t.co/DMa9Z7adFr

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

How did Warren go from the smartest candidate in the 2019 primary to Robert Reich Jr. in two years