Dynamist Blog

Watch this with the sound off, and you'd never guess they were talking about the global recession....

The recession is bad and probably will get worse, but historical context doesn't scream Great Depression. Journalists, who are like steelworkers in the 1980s, can be forgiven for thinking the econo...

Katherine Mangu-Ward offers political relationship advice. I don't want to spoil it, so just go read it....

A thoughtful post by Jim Manzi....

Not entirely fair to Ford, but point well taken. [Via The Wine Commonsewer.]...

A D.C. friend told me that publicity-chasing attorney Gloria Allred, whose litigation took gay marriage out of the legislature (where it passed twice) and into the courts and who was quick to file ...

Sam Macdonald, a former Washington editor for Reason and author of the new book The Urban Hermit: A Memoir, emails in response to my Depression lust post below: I just wrote a book (released Novemb...

Check out the ideas at DeepGlamour.net....

Economists Mark Bils and Pete Klenow, two very smart and interesting guys, argue (via an email to Greg Mankiw) for cutting the payroll tax as an economic stimulus. For reasons similar to theirs, th...

Judging from the results in the far-more-predictable circumstances of lab experiments, it seems so. My new Atlantic column looks at the research: In these uncertain economic times, we’d all like a ...