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The politics of panic

World leaders signing nuclear ban treaty on August 05, 1963. (Bettmann/Getty Images; Illustration by The Argument/ChatGPT)

In the AI doom discourse, I am considered an optimist. What that means is I think there’s only a tiny chance we all...

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You couldn’t be nice to your chatbot if you tried

But maybe you should try anyway.

Editor’s note: The first essay The Argument ever published asked, “How do we live with each other?” To mark our first anniversary, we’re returning to that founding question with a series about what we owe p...

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Polling has become a playground for grifters, liars, and frauds

Cardboard cutout fans populate the audience during a major league baseball game during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images; Illustration by The Argument/ChatGPT)

Over the 10 years I’ve been a pollster, my field...

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The scumbag style in American politics

Bad people make bad allies

Earlier this month, the Effective Altruist (EA) funding platform Manifund made a shocking announcement: It had hired convicted fraudster Caroline Ellison.

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No, diplomas are not a substitute for learning

Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week.

The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper

Worst Take of the Week is a new occasional column where the author will rant about...

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  • The Argument

    The Argument is a magazine making the combative, evidence-based case for liberalism. Founded by Jerusalem Demsas. Join us, we're libbing out.

  • Joseph Politano

    I write about monetary policy, labor markets, business, finance, and everything else that falls under macroeconomics. Subscribe to Apricitas and get data-driven economic insights delivered to your inbox every Saturday!

  • Kobe Yank-Jacobs

    Fellow at The Argument, Tech & Society

  • Jerusalem Demsas

    Editor-in-Chief of The Argument | [email protected]

  • Kelsey Piper

    We're not doomed. We just have a very long to-do list. @The Argument.

  • Maibritt Henkel

    (my Brit) fellow at The Argument covering gender etc.

  • Eli Richman

    Copy editor and fact-checker at The Argument

  • Matt Bruenig

    Founder of NLRB Edge.

  • Milan Singh

    Fellow @ The Argument arguing about economics (mostly housing) online

  • Matthew Yglesias

    Blogger, journalist, podcaster, trying to get back to my roots.

  • Dylan Matthews

    A writer in DC

  • Yonah Freemark

    Yonah Freemark is Lead of the Practice Area on Fair Housing, Land Use, and Transportation at the Urban Institute

  • Alex Trembath

    Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.

  • Jeremiah Johnson

    Jeremiah Johnson is a cofounder of the Center for New Liberalism and staff writer at The Argument. Twitter: @JeremiahDJohns.

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

    I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.

  • Emily Hamilton

    Housing economist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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