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The end of an era for China's economy
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16 Aug 2026
Zhu Rongji's formula won't work anymore. But that doesn't mean Xi Jinping's will work either.
23 low-regret recommendations for AI policy
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14 Aug 2026
A guest post by Tim Fist and Saif Khan, with Tao Burga, Arthur Tellis, Ben Schifman, Jonah Weinbaum, and Olivia Scharfman
Roundup #86: Unintended consequences
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12 Aug 2026
The MAGA decline; The labor share decline; OPTs and American jobs; AI and Indian outsourcing; Drug users; AI and productivity; Botswana; Interracial Marriage; AI writing
The poverty of anti-tech thought
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11 Aug 2026
Some of my colleagues have been led into an intellectual cul-de-sac.
Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
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8 Aug 2026
There's one thing keeping us afloat right now, and people want to get rid of it.
The end of the age of heroes
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4 Aug 2026
AI will soon be better at math than any human. What does that mean?
Slopulism is taking over America
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2 Aug 2026
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
Why did South Korean stocks just crash?
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30 Jul 2026
The AI boom creates a lot of uncertainty.
Roundup #85: Most policy is also industrial policy
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28 Jul 2026
Trump and science; U.S. national debt; Europe and software; America and trains; China and metal refining; Indian women; Murder
What will more intelligence actually do for us?
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26 Jul 2026
A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence.
We asked too much of the American university
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24 Jul 2026
Our one remaining functional institution is going downhill.
Who was the worst monster of the 20th century?
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22 Jul 2026
And who is the worst monster of the 21st?
The UK is a cautionary tale for the U.S.
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20 Jul 2026
Learning from Britain's missteps doesn't mean looking down on them.
America's political economy is pretty bleak right now
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18 Jul 2026
We can get some good things done, but major efforts will be difficult with our divided politics.
Why I didn't sign the "We Must Act Now" statement (yet)
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15 Jul 2026
I'd like to know exactly what the actions are.
The American suburbs are better than you think
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13 Jul 2026
They're not my personal cup of tea, but there are good reasons people like them.
I have never been working class
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12 Jul 2026
Unlike some American elites, I actually understand this fact.
MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks
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10 Jul 2026
The engine that powered history's greatest nation is in danger.
JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad
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8 Jul 2026
Making Americans poorer won't make our society better.
No, China did not manage to avoid a crash
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6 Jul 2026
But there are still things we can learn from how they manage their macroeconomy.
