I cover workers for the NYT. New Book: "Mutiny, the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." us.macmillan.com/books/97803…
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I have a story up today about why young college grads are feeling so angry: It’s more than just rising unemployment and the threat of AI. It’s a deep sense of betrayal. 1/ nytimes.com/2026/03/27/busin…
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Jun 11
Apropos of nothing much, here's a piece that @RMac18 and I wrote a few years ago about what it can be like to work at SpaceX. nytimes.com/2022/11/17/busin…
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Jun 11
This meeting that we reported on struck me as ... unusual for a workplace.
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Jun 11
"'SpaceX is Elon and Elon is SpaceX,' the two recalled hearing Mr. Edwards declare."
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As for economic populism among people w/o college degrees, there appears to be plenty of that, too. @GregTSargent has a piece pegged to some fascinating polling data about voter anger in rural (or at least not super urban) districts that backed Trump. newrepublic.com/article/2116…
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Jun 11
That game was traumatic for me and I'm not even a Spurs fan.
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Jun 11
Why are so many college grads voting for left-wing economic populists like Graham Platner and Zohran Mamdani? I try to explain on today's Daily nytimes.com/2026/06/11/podca…
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Jun 11
It's also a theme of my recent book "Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." If you happen to live in the Baltimore area, I'll be doing a book event there Monday with my friend and former colleague @AlecMacGillis. Details here events.bcpl.info/event/16604…
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Jun 11
Some of the issues we chew over on The Daily build on the back-and-forth @EricLevitz and I had about this stuff a few months back. That stuff is here for those who are interested in the preamble... x.com/noamscheiber/status/20…
Vox has a piece up today by @EricLevitz about my new book. Eric argues that ideology rather than economics has pulled young college grads to the left. I agree that ideology has played a role, but think he gives short shrift to economics. 1/ vox.com/politics/485055/muti…
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"Many of the jobs that women transitioned to during the computer revolution of the 1980s and 1990s, like accounting and human resources, are now vulnerable to A.I. displacement." nytimes.com/2026/06/10/busin…
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"The U.S. government has its own A.I. safety group, the Center for A.I. Standards and Innovation. But the British version, backed by about $480 million, is larger and better funded than its U.S. counterpart, which will receive about $10 million this year." nytimes.com/2026/05/24/techn…
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Have I mentioned that 84% of college grads under 30 voted for Mamdani in last fall's mayoral election? nytimes.com/2026/06/01/nyreg…
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"The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years." Bananas nytimes.com/2026/05/19/scien…
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Just seeing today that 95% of NBA commentators went against the conventional wisdom and had the Knicks in 6 all along. Congrats on this heroic act of foresight, albeit one announced retrospectively. Let this be a lesson to all our pundits about the virtues of courage and sobriety
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"Presidential museums mainly tell stories of success, certainly when first opened by the president’s supporters before they are turned over to the National Archives and Records Admin, whose nonpartisan historians eventually adapt the exhibits." Who knew? nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/po…
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May 29
One thing that struck me watching a number of Graham Platner town halls his how similar his message is to Obama's, even though Platner's reputation is left-wing firebrand and Obama's is mainstream liberal. This one from last month is pretty representative youtube.com/watch?v=t5d8G2RH…
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If you compare it to Obama's '04 Senate campaign speeches, they tell a similar story about how most Americans aren't that different. They basically want the same thing, and their asks are pretty modest--to be able to afford a house, health care, to send their kids to college. 2/
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The big difference is that Obama tended to blame our degraded politics for why it wasn't happening, whereas Platner blames specific people--"the corporate interests, the billionaires, the D.C. elites, the establishment politicians." But even there there's a little overlap. 3/
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May 29
Is Graham Platner working class? Are you? The answer to both questions may be a little complicated. I try to sort it out here nytimes.com/2026/05/29/magaz…
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May 26
This update on Ebola from the Devex Newswire seems real bad.
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