There's a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric from the right these days. It needs pushing back on, hard.
By building houses, providing healthcare and childcare, and helping put food on the table, immigrants make America more affordable!

New article from me today.

www.therebuild.pub/p/immigrants...

Potentially unpopular opinion: Conclave was pretty good but would have been better without the Benitez storyline.
It makes no sense, stretches credulity past the breaking point, and detracts from the movie.

I've got a new piece out today on Abundance and antitrust Some of the critics of Abundance politics have argued that it isn't sufficiently anti-monopoly. But it is. In fact, I would argue that Abundance is the real anti-monopoly position.

www.therebuild.pub/p/will-the-r...

In their new book "Abundance" Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein have written a timely, compelling manifesto for progressives who want to build a bright future.
It is *the book* laying out the case for Up-Left politics.
Here’s my review of it.

www.therebuild.pub/p/building-a...

Hey look, $165 million in one export in under a week!
People are used to thinking about trade in goods but services matter too.
Moana 2 is an export every bit as much as a car is and the animators who worked on it are 🇺🇸 workers just as much as if they were on an assembly line.

RFK Jr. kryptonite.

The world is getting a lot better in a lot of ways.

These results suggest that Dems would benefit from getting tougher on border security, tougher on crime, and more supply-side and consumer-oriented in their economic orientation.

There are lefties who will call that Republican-Lite. Ignore them. Listen to swing state voters.

This is very welcome news. Factories are so automated now that broad-based manufacturing employment isn't going to return. So for men to succeed in the labor market, they can't let outdated gender stereotypes dissuade them from good jobs, including in nursing.

Believe it or not, the world is both richer *and* more equal than it was in 1988.