Some Fairly-Recent Must- and Should-Reads...

Ezra Klein: @ezraklein on Twitter: "I don���t know what the [New York] Times should���ve done with Thrush. But I watched the efforts to plant oppo and smear @lkmcgann in the aftermath of her reporting. Anyone who thinks coming forward with these experiences is easy, even now, is wrong. I am beyond proud to be her colleague..."

Noah Smith: A Road Map for Reviving the Midwest: "John Austin believes that there are 'two Rust Belts'...

Ezra Klein: ���Trump country��� stories help explain our politics, not the next election: "Michael Kruse���s Politico story revisiting diehard Trump supporters in Johnstown, Pennsylvania...

Dan Morain: California congressional Republicans seek gas tax repeal: "Now that most of California���s House Republicans have voted for a tax overhaul that will raise taxes for many of their constituents, you have to wonder what more good cheer they���ll bring.... I���m thinking roads and other infrastructure...

Michael Jordan: On Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science: "The rapid growth in the size and scope of datasets in science and technology has created a need for novel foundational perspectives on data analysis...

Nick Hanauer (2012): A Message From Us Rich Plutocrats To All You Little People: "You need to understand that as job creators, at the center of the economic universe, the better we do, the better it must be for you...

John Maynard Keynes (1924): Tract on Monetary Reform: "Inflation and Deflation... inflicted great injuries...

Jeffrey Friedman: Public Choice Theory and the Politics of Good and Evil: "So now we finally know. Libertarians aren���t the ditzy bumblers exemplified by 2016 presidential candidate Gary (���What is a leppo?���) Johnson...

Some Fairly-Recent Links:

Joe Thompson: Four Revolutions: A Concise History Of The Modern Watch World: "I drove home from work that day depressed. Watches? Really? What can you possibly write about watches once a month?..."
Christopher A Pissarides: The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?: "An equilibrium search model with endogenous job creation and destruction... explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the cyclical volatility of wages..."
John Maynard Keynes (1924): A Tract on Monetary Reform
Alexandra Petri: Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting: "'Give me liberty, or give me death'. Woman in a Meeting: 'Dave, if I could, I could just���I just really feel like if we had liberty it would be terrific, and the alternative would just be awful, you know? That���s just how it strikes me. I don���t know'..."
Max Boot: 2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege: "I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender���and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it. This sounds obvious, but it wasn���t clear to me until recently. I have had my consciousness raised. Seriously..."
Benjamin Clymer: A Week On The Wrist: The Apple Watch Series 3 Edition: "We look at how cellular makes a difference (hint: it does���a big one) and how the ultimate smartwatch has started to hit its stride (if you can call it a watch)..." https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/hodinkee-apple-watch-review
Jennifer Williams: Trump foreign policy 2017: 9 bizarre things you forgot Trump did: "President Trump has gotten the US locked in a military standoff with North Korea, thrown the future of the Iran nuclear deal into doubt, weakened NATO, emboldened Russia, and triggered a diplomatic crisis over Jerusalem.And he���s done that all in under 12 months.... It���s easy to lose sight of the other weird, inappropriate, or just plain bizarre things Trump did on the world stage in 2017..."
Noah Smith: Rent for the Poor Really Is Too High: "After paying for housing, those in the lowest income bracket have little left for life's essentials..."

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Should-Reads:

Eric Posner (Written with Glen Weyl): Response to Matt Klein���s post on Alphaville on Harberger taxation: "Matt Klein���s post on Alphaville about a recent paper of ours made a number of errors... http://ericposner.com/response-to-matt-kleins-post-on-alphaville-on-harberger-taxation/
Ezra Klein: ���Trump country��� stories help explain our politics, not the next election: "Michael Kruse���s Politico story revisiting diehard Trump supporters in Johnstown, Pennsylvania...
Nick Hanauer (2012): A Message From Us Rich Plutocrats To All You Little People: "You need to understand that as job creators, at the center of the economic universe, the better we do, the better it must be for you...
Michael Jordan: On Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science: "The rapid growth in the size and scope of datasets in science and technology has created a need for novel foundational perspectives on data analysis...
Dan Morain: California congressional Republicans seek gas tax repeal: "Now that most of California���s House Republicans have voted for a tax overhaul that will raise taxes for many of their constituents, you have to wonder what more good cheer they���ll bring.... I���m thinking roads and other infrastructure...