Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Should Reads:

• James Pethokoukis: The 'Party of Ideas' in the Age of Trump: "In the run-up to the U.K. vote to leave the European Union, pro-Brexit politician Michael Gove said "people in this country have had enough of experts"...
• Michael Pettis: The re-emergence of the Jacksonians: "Donald Trump... is dishonest, unfit for the presidency, and incapable of office.... But he actually seems to thrive on the relentless series of what for any other candidate would have been knockout blows...
• Adam Samson: US economy adds 161k jobs in Oct, wage growth picks up
• Topher Spiro: The ACA isn’t in a ‘death spiral’ — it’s undergoing a correction: Repealing the law would leave 20 million Americans in a lurch...
• Farai Chideya: Mexican-Americans Are Reshaping the Electoral Map In Arizona — And The U.S.
• Claire Malone (July): The End Of A Republican Party
• Craig Fehrman: All Politics Is National: How state politicians went from solving the problems in their own backyards to mimicking the gridlock in Washington...
• David Wasserman: House Democrats Are Getting More Diverse. Republicans Aren’t
• Stuart Stevens: The Flat-Earth Set Helped Donald Trump Hijack the GOP, and Crash It into the Ground
• Barry Lynn: Estates of Mind: The answer to America’s techno-malaise is to force big corporations to compete more. And to open their patent vaults.
• Bernard Marr: 3 Industries That Will Be Transformed by AI, Machine Learning and Big Data: Healthcare, finance, and insurance...
• Economist: Take care of Russia
• Economist: Milk without the cow
• Michele Piccione and Ariel Rubinstein: Equilibrium in the Jungle
• Julie Lythcott-Haims: My Conversation with Peter Thiel about Apartheid… And Its Unfolding Aftermath

And Over Here:

• Michael DeLong: The Attack on Voting Rights
• Bret Stephens: 2016’s Big Reveal: "The awful election of 2016... was the Big Reveal... the guiding spirit of the modern conservative movement is neither Burke nor Lincoln...
• Must-Read: Dylan Matthews: Hillary Clinton’s Quiet Revolution: "The scope and ambition of Clinton’s program often gets missed...
• False equivalence! Unbelievable! (Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna): Albert Hunt: Dismal Campaign Presages a Crisis of Government: "Both sides bear responsibility for the sorry state of politics this year...
• Behold, This Election Day, the Gehenna of the Journamalist!
• USC Dornsife/LA Times Should Produce a Fascinating Political Science-Group Ideological Dynamics Paper
• Time for a personal plea to Jeff Bezos: shut the Washington Post down.: (Live from the Journamalists Self-Made Hell) An organization profoundly uninterested in being a trustworthy information intermediary has no reason to exist in the post-classified ads world: Philip Bump: Donald Trump’s ground game may be more robust than you think
• Paul Ryan von Papen: GOP Not Donald Trump's Party: "It is no one person’s party... (Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Trump Hell)
• The Trump Campaign: Final Day
• The Eichenwald and Fahrenthold Tweetstorms
• Peggy Noonan Monday Self-Smackdown
• Monday Smackdown: The Ongoing Flourishing of Behavioral Economics Makes My Position Here Look Considerably Better, No?
• Jungle Equilibrium Illustrated: The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife
• Must-Read: Branko Milanovic: The Long Shadow of 1989: "The [Eastern European] generation born around the early 1990s, which has now reached its maturity...
• Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Nate Silver’s model underrates Clinton’s odds: "Even if you buy Silver’s main modeling assumptions (and I largely do)...
• Gideon's Band Blogging: Ana Navarro Is a Mensch...
• Steve Schale: 1 more day. We can do this: "My most frequent model has the state going 40D, 39R, 21NPA.... We are going to land more like 39D, 38R, 23NPA... Harold Pollack: It's Not About You...: When you vote, it’s not about you or your preferred candidate
• A Republic, If You Can Keep It...
• I Am Still Amazed at How Many Republicans Are Trying to Drag Us into This Hell...
• Hillary Rodham Clinton Now Up by 3.5 Million Votes...
• Why Sam Wang Is My Spirit Animal Today

Might Like to Read:

• Yochi Dreazen: The anti-Clinton insurgency at the FBI, explained
• Frederick Douglass (1867): An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
• Sara Benincasa*: [I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire (October 2016 Edition) – Medium][] Chuck Wendig*: I’m Voting For Hillary, Because I Am Not A Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller (Nor Do I Want To Become One)

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