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Liberalism after 9/11
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Losing control of AI is actually the plan
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Labor-saving technologies 🤝 the welfare state
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The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers
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God is back on the timeline
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Nate Silver on why the center-left is losing
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Reading won’t save liberalism
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If a human did this, they could go to jail
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The marks are running the government
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Democracies attract immigrants who like democracy
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The loneliness crisis is a content crisis
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The public housing miracle that never happened
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Why parents love a school with bogus numbers
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JD Vance's economic pitch is higher prices
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No one is buying the right-wing theory of the elite
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Rich and poor kids should grow up next to each other
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No, Senator Murphy, I don't want to join your cult.
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Who starts a political magazine?
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Men also want it all
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Does it really matter that we're bowling alone?
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How do we live with each other?
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I don’t need you to believe I’m a woman
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Pigs vs. democracy
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#MeToo didn’t go far enough
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Who supports free trade? Everyone.
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Feminism looks better in first person
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Should we bribe the NIMBYs?
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You don’t actually want to buy a house
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The elites aren't who you think they are
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In defense of gerontocracy
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The right can't handle complicated men
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Bernie’s bad bet on OpenAI
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Will you still have a job in 2030?
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John Thomason joins The Argument as senior editor
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The left’s climate denial problem
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A specter is haunting North America
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Does the oligarchy exist?
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Jeremiah Johnson joins The Argument as a staff writer
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“Obsession” and the horror of losing yourself
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Jonathan Haidt is wrong about age-gating the internet
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The World Cup needs its own Supreme Court
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The scandal that actually broke Graham Platner
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What Graham Platner's defenders refused to see
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Should DayQuil be legal?
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It's not good but I want it
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Your God-given right to be happy
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The populists lost
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Why is it so hard for liberals to take the W?
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The Dad Tax
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Two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
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Americans want artisanal code
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The trouble with inequality politics
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We're hiring!
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Come see The Argument LIVE in D.C. (with Darby Saxbe)
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How would each state vote right now?
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Why centrists can’t win the Democratic presidential primary
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The space between doing nothing and calling the police
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Americans hate cheaters
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Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, and the price of loyalty
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The most 2020s art ever made
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The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster
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In defense of "Enjoy the long weekend."
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On suicidal penguins
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Homework shouldn’t be all fun and games
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The meritocracy of circadian rhythms
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No, Waymos aren't racist
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Originality is overrated
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Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret
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Our moral obligation to prevent crime
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The most popular book of the year has nothing to say
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Is TikTok art?
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AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
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The New York Times has a culture problem
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The anti-market delusion at the heart of the housing crisis
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I can never talk to an AI anonymously again
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The New York Times is wrong about the birth rate
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AI discourse is out of touch
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Helen DeWitt is the psycho we need
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Why do women feel so broke?
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The "Globo-Homo Complex" comes for Viktor Orban
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God, Orban, and JD Vance
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Women are done with Trump
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There’s no such thing as returning a child
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The orange man is very bad
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Can a liberal society do affirmative action right?
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The bros are more liberal than you think
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The perfect storm hitting millennials
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Yeah, this is going to suck
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Yeah, this is going to suck
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Against the Smartphone Theory of Everything
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The liberal case for voter ID
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Missing liberal hypocrisy
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Why America is so much better than Europe at immigration
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How youth sports supercharged the trans athlete debate
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Shoot the messenger
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Who is arguing for?
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Who's really ordering all that DoorDash?
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AI can do work. Can it do a job?
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The Nazi philosopher behind the postliberal right
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The third American revolution
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Many things are bad for children, but having gay parents still isn’t one of them
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Anthropic and the right to say no
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The Closing Argument
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Stop calling housing regulations “small-bore.”
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Introducing The Argument's first class of fellows
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Anthropic is somehow both too dangerous to allow and essential to national security
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The Trump voters telling pollsters they never voted for him
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We may miss the sweatshops
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Against thoughtless moderation
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How scarcity politics eats liberalism
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When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading"
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The postliberal war on economics
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Twitter is not real life
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How the opioid crisis turned places Republican
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Teaching kids to read isn't just about phonics
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Alex Pretti's death and the elite bargain
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What if Ozempic doesn't fix literally everything?
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The things you can't make people do
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We absolutely do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers
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The price of expertise
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The loneliness crisis isn't just male
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I can't stop yelling at Claude Code
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The NIMBY Christmas cinematic universe
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How getting richer made teenagers less free
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Schrödinger’s Democracy
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The forbidden truth about sex differences
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A lot of people are way too eager to declare Mississippi a myth, part I
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Below the $140,000 "poverty line"? Give anyway.
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Why I'm not a centrist
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"Some kids are just dumb" is not good education policy
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When grades stop meaning anything
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Trump’s biggest tell is the policy he doesn’t talk about
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Karine Jean-Pierre is not a #GirlBoss
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We checked The NYT’s data. Moderates still win.
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When environmentalists choose panic over progress
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16 takeaways from Democrats' big night
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An abortion ban pushed me toward abortion
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Have you heard the good news on housing?
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Can Democrats actually learn anything from Zohran?
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Bigots in the tent
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Treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco
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No Kings wasn't cringe
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Creative destruction is a miracle. It’s also a political problem.
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What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?
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Is Mississippi cooking the books?
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Why women should be techno-optimists
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Please let the robots have this one
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ChatGPT and the end of learning
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The problem with #BossBabe leftism
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“You have 18 months”
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A left-wing Trump isn't the answer. This is.
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If someone builds it, will everyone die?
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A man was murdered
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College students increasingly believe violence is justifiable to stop speech
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You're being rude. Put away your phone.
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A tale of two ballrooms
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Liberals don’t have to lose on immigration
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The honesty tax
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On RFK Jr.’s mitochondrial malaise
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No country for young families
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Mad Libs: Bruenig v. Piper
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Giving people money helped less than I thought it would
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How do we live with each other?
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Welcome to The Argument
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