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  1. Midterms Deep Dive: An exclusive election model update and poll release
  2. How Republicans lost voters’ trust
  3. How to beat the deficit hawks
  4. LIVE: Election night with Nate Silver, Galen Druke, and Matt Yglesias
  5. My weekend with the “sex-realist” feminists
  6. Sold a Story is not the whole story
  7. What economists just don’t get about climate change
  8. First they came for Ilhan Omar
  9. Vivek Ramaswamy gives himself an October surprise
  10. You can trust Elizabeth Holmes
  11. Will AI help start the next pandemic? (With Hamza Chaudhry)
  12. Do environmentalists believe in renewable energy?
  13. The Democrats can't wait out God
  14. Could Michigan and Kansas both flip? (with Eli McKown-Dawson)
  15. What I saw inside Anthropic
  16. How to become a millionaire (with Owen Zidar)
  17. LIVE: Midterms deep dive with Lakshya Jain
  18. Cornell and the sexual counterrevolution
  19. Republicans don’t believe you’re too sick to work
  20. Sorry lawyers, you can't save the planet with paperwork
  21. You can't drone the internet into being normal
  22. Liberalism let me change my mind
  23. How Sean Trende's Outback order explains the 2026 midterms
  24. The book is not about you
  25. Cancel Columbus, Save Jefferson
  26. MAGA’s Talarico conspiracy theory has no “off” switch
  27. Trump’s student loan rule doesn’t go far enough
  28. The fox in liberalism’s henhouse
  29. Marco Rubio flunks Western Civ
  30. Let them have slop
  31. The MAGA realignment realigns
  32. What if dictators never died?
  33. The nightmare before progress
  34. You don’t need to hate people to save the planet
  35. The selfish war doctrine
  36. Americans want Congress to stop the imperial presidency
  37. MAGA is having a normal one
  38. What happened to the working-class husband?
  39. Stop trying to make xenophobia sound smart
  40. The least popular war since Vietnam
  41. I’m with Nikole Hannah-Jones on this one
  42. No, AI safety is not a threat to GDP
  43. Do I just care because they look like me?
  44. Can the Massachusetts lesbian Bar save journalism?
  45. How to kill housing with paperwork
  46. The politics of panic
  47. You couldn’t be nice to your chatbot if you tried
  48. Polling has become a playground for grifters, liars, and frauds
  49. The scumbag style in American politics
  50. No, diplomas are not a substitute for learning
  51. How to make Macklemore a martyr
  52. One policy that unites liberals and conservatives
  53. Does central planning always end in dictatorship?
  54. What do we owe the embryos we leave behind?
  55. The real antitrust case against Amazon
  56. Medicare for All, one organ at a time
  57. Politics at the end of the world
  58. When fitness becomes fascism
  59. One big reason nobody’s walking to school anymore
  60. Liberalism after 9/11
  61. I changed my mind about Big Philanthropy
  62. Losing control of AI is actually the plan
  63. Labor-saving technologies 🤝 the welfare state
  64. The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers
  65. God is back on the timeline
  66. Seeing like an elite
  67. Nate Silver on why the center-left is losing
  68. We won’t stop climate change by talking about it
  69. Reading won’t save liberalism
  70. When "economic liberty" means central planning
  71. If a human did this, they could go to jail
  72. The marks are running the government
  73. Democracies attract immigrants who like democracy
  74. The loneliness crisis is a content crisis
  75. The public housing miracle that never happened
  76. Why parents love a school with bogus numbers
  77. Four things I changed my mind on after a year of polling
  78. JD Vance's economic pitch is higher prices
  79. True Crime Brain comes for Lindsay Clancy
  80. Can liberalism survive the algorithm?
  81. No one is buying the right-wing theory of the elite
  82. Rich and poor kids should grow up next to each other
  83. No, Senator Murphy, I don't want to join your cult.
  84. Someone is always going to be better than you
  85. Who starts a political magazine?
  86. Woke me once, shame on you...
  87. Men also want it all
  88. Does it really matter that we're bowling alone?
  89. Hillbilly economics
  90. How do we live with each other?
  91. I don’t need you to believe I’m a woman
  92. The heresy of Hank Green
  93. Pigs vs. democracy
  94. The many delusions of Jason Arday
  95. The dismal economics and wild joy of parenting
  96. #MeToo didn’t go far enough
  97. America's endless home makeover
  98. Who supports free trade? Everyone.
  99. Chat, what’s the public’s favorite AI lab?
  100. Feminism looks better in first person
  101. The simps who took down an alleged sex trafficker
  102. Should we bribe the NIMBYs?
  103. You don’t actually want to buy a house
  104. The elites aren't who you think they are
  105. In defense of gerontocracy
  106. Who loses when cars stop crashing?
  107. The right can't handle complicated men
  108. Computer, do a breakthrough. No mistakes.
  109. Bernie’s bad bet on OpenAI
  110. Every single poll published by The Argument
  111. Will you still have a job in 2030?
  112. The Odyssey proves the online right isn't conservative
  113. John Thomason joins The Argument as senior editor
  114. The left’s climate denial problem
  115. You can't diversify the finish line
  116. A specter is haunting North America
  117. Death hoaxes, Messi conspiracies, and Lego drama
  118. Shakespeare saw Andrew Tate coming
  119. Does the oligarchy exist?
  120. No, 2.8 million Americans are not "screaming and vomiting"
  121. Jeremiah Johnson joins The Argument as a staff writer
  122. “Obsession” and the horror of losing yourself
  123. Jonathan Haidt is wrong about age-gating the internet
  124. The World Cup needs its own Supreme Court
  125. It really is about Israel
  126. The scandal that actually broke Graham Platner
  127. Was Jane Jacobs the first NIMBY?
  128. Platner is on the ropes. What comes next?
  129. Yes, you can trick AI into exonerating you
  130. What Graham Platner's defenders refused to see
  131. Should DayQuil be legal?
  132. It's not good but I want it
  133. Your God-given right to be happy
  134. Why the left is wrong about assimilation
  135. Women aren't born wanting to earn less money
  136. How to quit a quarter-trillion-dollar gambling habit
  137. The great American math collapse
  138. The populists lost
  139. Elon Musk's zero accountability life
  140. Top 5 reasons to hate Joe Biden
  141. Are forecasters sleeping on Democrats?
  142. I ran the numbers. Trump cost us 274,000 jobs.
  143. Why is it so hard for liberals to take the W?
  144. The spectacular failure of the first AI Super PAC
  145. The Dad Tax
  146. Two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
  147. We watched the internet’s dating advice so you don’t have to
  148. The experts are wrong about 2026
  149. Sometimes you have to hurt people
  150. Americans want artisanal code
  151. The trouble with inequality politics
  152. We're hiring!
  153. Why everyone loves Amazon
  154. Come see The Argument LIVE in D.C. (with Darby Saxbe)
  155. How NIMBYs hijacked the climate movement
  156. NEW POLL: 25% of voters think AI could end humanity and don't care
  157. The biggest issue in American politics doesn't exist yet
  158. How would each state vote right now?
  159. You have to love America to save it
  160. Why centrists can’t win the Democratic presidential primary
  161. The space between doing nothing and calling the police
  162. The age of snark
  163. Do we need to build God to cure cancer?
  164. Why AI can solve hard math problems but can't count
  165. Americans hate cheaters
  166. How Trump put the Senate into play
  167. Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, and the price of loyalty
  168. The most 2020s art ever made
  169. Why is crime falling everywhere?
  170. The strange rush to declare the end of inequality
  171. The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster
  172. In defense of "Enjoy the long weekend."
  173. On suicidal penguins
  174. Young people are rich and miserable
  175. Why Democrats and Republicans want you to pay $50,000 for a car
  176. What does a "fair redistricting" even mean?
  177. What libertarians get wrong about freedom
  178. Homework shouldn’t be all fun and games
  179. We tested one of the media's favorite economic theories
  180. The meritocracy of circadian rhythms
  181. MAGA loves the deep state now
  182. Did Joe Biden really kill Spirit Airlines?
  183. No, Waymos aren't racist
  184. Democrats should fire bad teachers and bad cops
  185. "Are we kind of being pricks?"
  186. Originality is overrated
  187. Hantavirus incompetence
  188. When men are soft on crime
  189. Kalshi crashes the polling party
  190. Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret
  191. Our moral obligation to prevent crime
  192. Will we know when AI is taking our jobs?
  193. The most popular book of the year has nothing to say
  194. Join us for The Argument LIVE in San Francisco
  195. Is TikTok art?
  196. You can't redistribute your way out of a housing shortage
  197. Why Democrats can't win more Trump disapprovers
  198. AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
  199. The best defense of economics is a paper about the NFL
  200. The New York Times has a culture problem
  201. The anti-market delusion at the heart of the housing crisis
  202. You helped push this forward
  203. Winning is everything. It also means nothing
  204. Stop blaming ugly buildings for the housing crisis
  205. I can never talk to an AI anonymously again
  206. The New York Times is wrong about the birth rate
  207. AI discourse is out of touch
  208. Education research is weak and sloppy. Why?
  209. Helen DeWitt is the psycho we need
  210. Why do women feel so broke?
  211. The loneliest Americans are the ones who can't make rent
  212. Can you tinker your way out of the permanent underclass?
  213. The "Globo-Homo Complex" comes for Viktor Orban
  214. MAGA chauvinism comes home to roost
  215. God, Orban, and JD Vance
  216. Women are done with Trump
  217. MAGA meritocracy
  218. A generation of cheaters
  219. There’s no such thing as returning a child
  220. The orange man is very bad
  221. Can a liberal society do affirmative action right?
  222. Does it suck to have a job?
  223. The bros are more liberal than you think
  224. Are most Americans illiterate?
  225. The perfect storm hitting millennials
  226. Stop trying to make me buy a house
  227. Yeah, this is going to suck
  228. Yeah, this is going to suck
  229. Every bad thing you've heard about smartphones, ranked
  230. Against the Smartphone Theory of Everything
  231. The happiest election in the world
  232. The liberal case for voter ID
  233. Americans would trade jobs for cheaper eggs
  234. Missing liberal hypocrisy
  235. The age of spying
  236. AI could destroy the labor market. We already know how to fix it.
  237. Why America is so much better than Europe at immigration
  238. How youth sports supercharged the trans athlete debate
  239. Shoot the messenger
  240. Who is arguing for?
  241. Why Americans think other Americans are bad people
  242. Who's really ordering all that DoorDash?
  243. Red states get Waymos. Blue states get studies.
  244. AI can do work. Can it do a job?
  245. The Nazi philosopher behind the postliberal right
  246. The third American revolution
  247. Many things are bad for children, but having gay parents still isn’t one of them
  248. How to win a culture war from behind
  249. The Tinder-ization of the job market
  250. Why hasn't AI cured cancer?
  251. Anthropic and the right to say no
  252. The Closing Argument
  253. Stop calling housing regulations “small-bore.”
  254. Introducing The Argument's first class of fellows
  255. Anthropic is somehow both too dangerous to allow and essential to national security
  256. The Trump voters telling pollsters they never voted for him
  257. Why schools keep losing the technology bet
  258. Did feminization kill progress?
  259. We may miss the sweatshops
  260. Do abortion bans inevitably kill women?
  261. Against thoughtless moderation
  262. The trans rights backlash is real
  263. How scarcity politics eats liberalism
  264. When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading"
  265. Should top colleges admit students who can't do basic math?
  266. The hypocrisy of abundance
  267. In the shadow of the omnicause
  268. Jon Stewart has become his own worst nightmare
  269. The postliberal war on economics
  270. Twitter is not real life
  271. Moltbook shows we won't pull the plug
  272. The real reason behind Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal
  273. How the opioid crisis turned places Republican
  274. Teaching kids to read isn't just about phonics
  275. Immigration is turning into a disaster for Trump
  276. Trump is losing the working class
  277. Anthropic probably shouldn't be doing this, but they're doing it well
  278. Alex Pretti's death and the elite bargain
  279. What if Ozempic doesn't fix literally everything?
  280. How liberals lost tech
  281. What women "don't know"
  282. I wish the states' rights people had meant it
  283. The things you can't make people do
  284. We absolutely do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers
  285. The toxic modernity narrative
  286. Against white-knuckle parenting
  287. Are Republicans really happier than Democrats?
  288. The price of expertise
  289. The loneliness crisis isn't just male
  290. Everybody hates renters
  291. I can't stop yelling at Claude Code
  292. Voters care about democracy. They just can’t agree on what it means.
  293. The anti-socialists who love to social engineer
  294. The culture war is a symptom
  295. Happy New Year!

2025 126

  1. Are children people?
  2. Some of you are lying about reading
  3. AI predictions for 2026: The flood is coming
  4. Warning: This is an extremely wonky article about polling
  5. Coping with Christmas
  6. How I fell into education reporting
  7. The NIMBY Christmas cinematic universe
  8. 14 books The Argument thinks you should read
  9. Don't get fancy with your labor market fixes for AI
  10. In defense of stuff
  11. How getting richer made teenagers less free
  12. Have Democrats lost their education edge?
  13. Schrödinger’s Democracy
  14. It’s easier than ever to hijack the vibe
  15. The forbidden truth about sex differences
  16. Looking back at a year of AI cope and progress
  17. Mamdani's moderation wasn't just about helping him win
  18. Democrats' magic word
  19. The peasant logic of MAGA politics
  20. The unraveling of Trump's 2024 coalition
  21. The case against the Mississippi miracle, part II
  22. A lot of people are way too eager to declare Mississippi a myth, part I
  23. The fox in liberalism’s henhouse
  24. Below the $140,000 "poverty line"? Give anyway.
  25. This is how you get Nazis
  26. Medieval kings would envy you
  27. Some Thanksgiving thanks (and 3 great reads)
  28. The answer to bad tech is better tech
  29. Most Americans support some vaccines. We can work with that.
  30. Why I'm not a centrist
  31. The China fetish is getting to be a bit much
  32. "Some kids are just dumb" is not good education policy
  33. The COVID political backlash disappeared
  34. 2026 is looking terrible for Republicans
  35. Voters don't care much about climate change — they're right
  36. Mad Libs: Purser v. Wertheimer
  37. When grades stop meaning anything
  38. Trump’s biggest tell is the policy he doesn’t talk about
  39. Let's automate immigration policy
  40. Karine Jean-Pierre is not a #GirlBoss
  41. We checked The NYT’s data. Moderates still win.
  42. When environmentalists choose panic over progress
  43. Borders don't require torture
  44. How to neuter the social media mob
  45. Mad Libs: Jain v. Piper
  46. The Argument is hiring!
  47. Cities can't find enough cops. Here's what to do about it.
  48. Newsom got his gerrymander. Now what?
  49. 16 takeaways from Democrats' big night
  50. The Argument Election Night Watch Party
  51. The Argument + Pantsuit Politics
  52. Local control is not democracy
  53. Education isn't a zero-sum game
  54. An abortion ban pushed me toward abortion
  55. Why we need to experiment on pregnant women
  56. The Argument is hiring!
  57. Women change their minds
  58. The NYT is wrong — the health care wars aren’t over
  59. The immigration problem is a crime problem
  60. Have you heard the good news on housing?
  61. Can Democrats actually learn anything from Zohran?
  62. You're not the captain of the parenting police
  63. Bigots in the tent
  64. Treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco
  65. No Kings wasn't cringe
  66. Trump’s college compact is a trap
  67. Do AIs think differently in different languages?
  68. Is the Supreme Court going to doom the Dems? We did the math.
  69. RFK Jr.'s delicate political dance
  70. You can save your own brain if you want to
  71. Creative destruction is a miracle. It’s also a political problem.
  72. I could watch TikTok for 10 hours a day
  73. What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?
  74. The search for an AI-proof job
  75. We need to be able to sue AI companies
  76. It will shock you how much this shutdown never happened
  77. Is Mississippi cooking the books?
  78. Let Taylor Swift rip off other artists
  79. RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and Elizabeth Warren agree on at least one big thing
  80. Why women should be techno-optimists
  81. Mad Libs: Piper v. Weissmann
  82. Please let the robots have this one
  83. ChatGPT and the end of learning
  84. The problem with #BossBabe leftism
  85. Live with Your Local Epidemiologist!
  86. Am I a big fat hypocrite on speech?
  87. Illiteracy is a policy choice
  88. Trump is raising Americans’ energy bills, but states can fight back
  89. Don’t make abundance the moderate omnicause
  90. Against assassinating Nazis
  91. How our surveys work
  92. “You have 18 months”
  93. A left-wing Trump isn't the answer. This is.
  94. If someone builds it, will everyone die?
  95. The Epstein problem
  96. Yeah, we're going to have to do DEI for conservatives
  97. The Argument is hiring!
  98. No, Mr. President, I will not tip my plumber
  99. Democrats look screwed for 2026. They're not.
  100. Charlie Kirk’s killing, and Trump’s response, are a danger to liberalism
  101. A man was murdered
  102. College students increasingly believe violence is justifiable to stop speech
  103. You're being rude. Put away your phone.
  104. A tale of two ballrooms
  105. Pronatalism isn’t just for illiberal freaks
  106. Liberals don’t have to lose on immigration
  107. We're not all going to get along
  108. The honesty tax
  109. How I learned to start worrying and hate the deficit
  110. YIMBYs beat the politicians. Now they have to beat the judges.
  111. On RFK Jr.’s mitochondrial malaise
  112. 16 thoughts on our free-speech poll
  113. When Americans bite their tongues: The Argument polls free speech attitudes
  114. The forgotten American value of minding your own business
  115. We’re becoming a Döner Republic
  116. Mad Libs: Gurri v. Demsas
  117. AI broke job hunting. I think I have a fix.
  118. No country for young families
  119. The case for staying on Twitter
  120. Mad Libs: Bruenig v. Piper
  121. Polling is good
  122. The imaginary war on American workers
  123. Giving people money helped less than I thought it would
  124. How do we live with each other?
  125. Introducing The Argument
  126. Welcome to The Argument