Around the Traps 5/1/24

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Chris McMillan on no-climate-for-cricket-how-global-warming-is-putting-the-heat-on-nzs-summer-game
• Jenny Gordon on economically-australia-has-been-lucky-what-matters-now-is-what-we-do-next
• David Lee on cabinet-papers-2003-howard-government-sends-australia-into-the-iraq-war
• Joshua Black on storm-clouds-ahead-scandals-that-have-rocked-australian-politics

OZ climate

• massive-1500-mw-wind-project-in-nsw-gets-planning-approval-first-in-nearly-three-years
  
• john-howard-killed-emissions-trading-plan-in-2003-after-industry-lobbying-cabinet-papers
  
• rooftop-solar-pv-gorilla-roars-again-meets-all-demand-in-one-state-in-holiday-peak
  

Northern America

• Brad De Long on civic-friendship
• can we still govern on the-campaign-to-remove-the-president-of-Harvard-is-about-DEI-not-plagiarism Thanks Nick
• Russell Contreras on trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism
• Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut on trump-special-counsel-jack-smith-january-6-trial-motion
• David Frum on trump-maine-ballot
• Amy Sorkin on should-the-fourteenth-amendment-be-used-to-disqualify-trump
• noahopinion on blue-states-dont-build , hispanics-as-the-new-irish
• the conversable economist on national-security-as-an-excuse-for-tariffs-garlic-and-scissors , high-us-health-care-spending-higher-prices-or-higher-quantities
• Zack Beauchamp on 2024-election-republican-primary-death-threats-trump
• Todd Phillips on nra-bad-news-supreme-court-vullo
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-donald-trump-ballot-insurrection-fourteenth-amendment-colorado-anderson . abortion-supreme-court-emtala-fifth-circuit-texas-becerra
• Franklin Foer on trump-second-term-mafia-state
• Robert Katzberg on supreme-court-pro-trump-ballot-ruling
• Mark Stern on supreme-court-abortion-case-texas-dobbs
• Jeannie Gersen on could-a-trump-win-put-his-running-mate-in-office
• Jeet Heer on rudy-giuliani-racism-media-tragedy
• Mark Stern on supreme-court-abortion-case-texas-dobbs
• Nitish Pahwa on jeffrey-epstein-list-alan-dershowitz-hamas-hannity

Europe

• renew economy on germanys-coal-power-production-drops-to-lowest-level-in-60-years-in-2023-after-nuclear-exit

Asia

• noahopinion on what-the-solow-model-can-teach-us-about-china
• Trang Nguyen on vietnam-s-challenge-wean-coal
• Zack Beauchamp on israel-supreme-court-judicial-overhaul-reasonableness-basic-law-overturn
• Isaac Chotiner on gaza-is-starving, whats-behind-israels-crackdown-in-the-west-bank
• Genevieve Donnellan-May on multilateral-cooperation-can-improve-south-asia-s-water-woes

Wonk

• Veronica Guerrierri et al on monetary policy in times of structural reallocation Thanks Brad
• Kaushik Basu on biggest-threats-to-2024-economic-outlook Thanks Brad
• Market sentiment on the-problem-with-magnificent-7 Thanks Brad
• After Babel on antisemitism-on-campus Thanks Nick
• Juan Rajas and Geoff Shullenburger on why-chile-couldn-t-bury-neoliberalism Thanks Nick
• Marina Zhang on lithium-lightest-metal-earth-carries-heavy-geopolitical-weight
• Uneasy Money on mattei-misjudges-hawtrey
• Jessica Genauer on will-the-world-see-more-wars-or-unrest-in-2024-here-are-5-hotspots-to-watch
• Ellen Ioannes on south-africa-israel-genocide-case-gaza-hamas-palestinians
• Tim Harford on why-the-breakdown-of-the-9-5-job-is-making-us-lonelier
• Mainly Macro on the-case-for-increasing-government-debt-to-green-is great
• Sandwichman on lost-in-translation-slow-down-by-kohei
• the conversable economist on maybe-studying-economics-does-not-make-you-selfish
• James Gleik on the-fate-of-free-will-free-agents-kevin-mitchell
• noahopinion on toward-a-shallower-future
• stumbling and mumbling on on-high-wage-jobs

General

• Jonti Horner on want-to-get-into-stargazing-a-professional-astronomer-explains-where-to-start
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Climate

• Umair Irfan on 2023-warmest-year-cop28-climate-change-science
• Peter Sinclair on renewables-only-getting-started
• Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca on california-climate-policy-pioneer

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• how-not-to-be-fooled-by-viral-charts
  
• the-continuing-challenge-of-poststratification-when-we-dont-have-full-joint-data-on-the-population
  
• the-onion-ok-an-onion-affiliate-site-is-plagiarizing
  
• extinct-champagne-grapes-i-can-be-even-more-disappointed-in-the-news-media
  
• clarkes-law-and-whos-to-blame-for-bad-science-reporting
  
• progress-in-2023
  
• in-some-cases-academic-misconduct-doesnt-deserve-a-public-apology
  
• the conversable economist on leamer-on-economic-knowledge-pictures-stories-numbers
• Kaiser Fung on when-will-we-get-more-and-broader-testing

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• improved-public-services-can-reduce-geographic-disparities
  
• saving-and-spending-time
  
• Chris Armstrong on my-best-novels-of-the-year
• Institutional Economics on review-essay-milton-friedman, holiday-reads-two-biographies-of-ayn-rand
• Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading

Vox Wonk

• new-cross-country-database-potential-growth
  
• brexit-inflation-role-trade-policy-uncertainty-increasing-uk-import-prices
  
• hawkish-or-dovish-central-bankers-different-flocks-and-fiscal-shocks
  
• green-jobs-fossil-fuel-workers-implications-geography-and-skills-clean-energy
  
• urban-biased-structural-change
  
• great-divergence-south-south-divergence
  
• quantitative-easing-generates-more-inflation-conventional-monetary-policy
  
• assessing-chinas-efforts-increase-self-reliance