It is time for Around the Traps again.
Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy
- Christopher Rudge on robodebt-compensation-is-a-win-for-victims-but-now-we-may-never-know-the-full-story
- Ross Gittins on if-youve-been-treating-yourself-more-your-not-alond-heres-why , why-wed-be-mugs-to-cut-rate-of-company-tax , our-future-prosperity-is-bright-weve-hidden-an-ace-up-our-sleave , if-we-care-about-fairness-its-not-well-paid-that-are-the-worry
- Lindsay Dodd on messy-truth-australia-s-reputation-southeast-asia
- Natalie Peng on could-labors-super-tax-reforms-be-headed-for-a-makeover-heres-how-a-redesign-might-work
- Helen Zhang on why-australians-are-realists-china
- Jiwon Kim on peacemaker-pacemaker-playmaker-three-way-formula-engaging-north-korea
- croaking cassandra on another-snippet , tangled-webs , a-former-deputy-governor-on-the-rb-shambles
- Kevin Bonham on how-labor-won-94-seats-off-modest-primary-vote
- Michelle Grattan on sussan-ley-sacks-jacinta-price-after-she-refuses-to-declare-leadership-loyality
- Milad Haghani and David Henscher on private-toll-roads-are-supposed-to-save-taxpayers-money-but-can-have-these-hidden-costs
OZ Climate
- wind-hits-record-147-per-cent-of-state-demand-thanks-to-new-link-and-relaxed-gas-needs
- extraordinary-battery-storage-prices-plunge-again-as-wind-and-solar-curtailment-levels-soar
- watt-promises-faster-yess-and-faster-nos-in-breakthrough-for-wind-solar-and-storage-projects
- renewables-reach-new-record-high-of-76-4-pct
- australias-business-lobbies-seem-happy-to-let-the-country-burn-what-will-federal-labor-do
- queensland-lnp-pledges-to-burn-coal-for-many-decades-as-federal-labor-wrestles-with-climate-pledge
- bigger-home-batteries-are-taming-the-solar-duck-and-creating-more-room-for-rooftop-pv
- cheap-power-to-the-people-could-shift-the-dial-for-renewables-in-the-regions
- australias-lost-opportunity-the-good-news-and-the-bad-news-on-wind-energy-capital-costs
- John Hawkins on rapid-climate-action-will-come-at-a-cost-according-to-the-business-council-but-experts-say-the-benefits-are-far-larger
- Petra Stack on offshore-wind-australia-energy-transition-so-why-mass-exodus-from-investors
Northern America
- institutional economics on scotus-and-the-bond-market
- noahopinion on america-is-getting-the-economy-we-voted-for , what-is-an-american , civil-war-is-for-idiots-and-losers
- can we still govern on the-authoritarian-checklist Thanks Nick
- Kenneth Rogoff on americas-coming-crash Thanks Nick
- Peter Draper and Nathan Gray on as-trump-abandons-the-rulebook-on-trade-does-free-trade-have-a-future-elsewhere
- Tyler Cowen on a-few-remarks-on-fed-independence
- Kruggers on the-dangers-of-fiscal-dominance , scott-bessent-sleazy-smearer
- Rebecca Ibarra and Sean Rameswaram on trump-deportation-us-population-shrink
- Brad De Long on on-the-deeply-corrupt-republican-justices
- Menzie Chinn on clifford-winston-academic-toadies-impair-government-performance
- Luke Hunt on trumps-deployment-of-the-national-guard-to-fight-crime-blurs-the-legal-distinction-between-the-police-and-the-military
- Mark Stern on supreme-court-analysis-ice-detention-kavanaugh-sotomayor
- newdeal democrat on scenes-from-the-no-good-rotten-terrible-and-abysmal-august-jobs-report , the-gold-standard-qcew-suggests-there-may-have-been-no-growth-at-all-in-jobs-so-far-this-year
- the conversable economist on interview-with-dean-karlan-us-government-foreign-aid , us-income-inequality-before-taxes-and-many-transfers-census-data
- Jeet Heer on charlie-kirk-shooting-assassination-analysis
- calculated risk on cleveland-fed-median-cpi-increased-03
- Jared Monschein on charlie-kirks-assassination-is-the-latest-act-of-political-violence-in-a-febrile-united-states
- Karrin Anderson on why-journalists-are-reluctant-to-call-trump-an-authoritarian-and-why-that-matters-for-democracy
- Eric Levitz on charlie-kirk-shooting-trump-radical-left-violence
Europe
- Irna Skubii on soviet-symbolism-returns-russian-diplomacy
- David Kirichenko on ukraine-s-oil-war-threatens-leave-russia-running-empty
- Tyler Cowen on facts-about-norway
- Jennifer Mathers on russia-has-provided-fresh-evidence-of-its-territorial-ambitions-in-ukraine
- the conversable economist on eu-productivity-and-lack-of-integration , predistribution-not-redistribution-in-the-nordic-countries
- Tom Nicholls on russia-reckless-provocation
- Khang Vu on are-there-actually-north-korean-troops-inside-ukraine
- Alex Tabarrok on the-british-war-on-slavery
- Fred Kaplan on poland-russia-drones-trump-putin
Asia
- Adam Simpson on thailand-has-another-new-prime-minister-and-an-opening-for-progress-but-will-anything-change
- Jackson Lopez on vietnam-s-case-what-exactly-target-trump-s-transshipment-tariffs
- Sebastian Maslow on why-did-japanese-prime-minister-shigeru-ishiba-resign-and-who-might-replace-him
- Ian Langford on xi-jinping-is-in-a-race-against-time-to-secure-his-legacy-in-china
- Fred Kaplan on trump-qatar-israel-gaza-palestine-war
- Shannon Bosch on can-israel-use-self-defence-to-justify-its-strike-on-qatar-under-the-law
- Scott Lucas on middle-east-leaders-condemn-israels-attack-on-qatar-as-netanyahu-ends-all-talk-of-gaza-ceasefire-expert-qanda
- Julien Oeuillet on taiwan-s-diplomacy-doesn-t-have-come-government
- Chietigi Bajpaee on india-us-relations-demonstrate-fickle-foreign-policies-sticky-relations
Wonk
- the existential republic on i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-facism-they-all -failed Thanks Nick
- Luke Burgis on im-going-to-prison Thanks Nick
- Tim Harford on how-a-well-timed-kind-word-can-change-everything
- the conversable economist on what-do-managers-do
- Tyler Cowen on three-accounts-of-modern-liberalism
- Michael Mann and Peter Hotez on science-under-siege-weaponised-disinformation
- Seong-Hyon Lee on china-russia-north-korea-alliance-needs-no-name
- Andrew Dodd and Mathew Ricketson on murdoch-resolves-succession-drama-a-win-for-lachlan-a-loss-for-public-interest-journalism
- noahopinion on are-westerners-turning-back-into-medieval-peasants
- Menzie Chinn on what-new-have-we-learned-about-us-dollar-dominance-as-a-reserve-currency
General
- Jake Newman-Martin et al on australia-has-some-new-marsupial-species-but-theyre-already-extinct
- Marguerite Johnson on the-legend-of-troy-explained
Climate
- David Appell on the-lack-of-peer-review-for-doe-climate
- open mind on bad-science-on-sea-level , how-bonferroni-goes-wrong
- and Then Theres Physics on some-thoughts-about-doing-science
- Umair Irfan on vector-borne-disease-threats-climate-change-brownsville-texas-resistance
- skeptical science on merchants-of-doubt-are-back , fact-brief-has-arctic-sea-ice-recovered , new_research
- Steve Chown on high-tech-plans-to-save-polar-ice-will-fail-new-research-finds
- Peter Newman and Sam Wills on climate-action-can-feel-slow-but-the-fastest-energy-leap-in-history-has-begun
Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)
- weighting-of-evidence-and-conflict-of-interest-at-the-fda-and-elsewhere
- this-post-is-not-about-newt-gingrich-and-fox-news-nor-is-it-about-michio-kaku-and-string-theory
- hypertext-as-constructed-and-hypertext-as-read
- show-dont-tell-chatgpt-5-marginalizing-gelmans-measurment-error-model-in-stan
- survey-statistics-imputation-ii
- going-beyond-naive-individualistic-models-of-social-science
- howl-after-allen-ginsberg-for-the-ai-headed-hipsters
- hot-social-science-topics-20-years-ago-and-hot-social-science-topics-now
- Freakometrics on personalised insurance premiums
Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)
- Joel Eissenberg on book-ted-nugent
- Tyler Cowen on take-a-girl-like-you-by-kingsley-amis
- Andrew Gelman on you-learn-about-possible-plagiarism-in-a-literary-work-how-does-that-affect-your-view-of-it-the-a-j-finn-story
Vox wonk
- loose-monetary-policy-dollar-depreciation-and-debt-sustainability-do-not-forget
- when-aid-kills-how-foreign-assistance-can-fuel-political-violence
- easy-money-easy-spending-new-take-resource-curse
- unpacking-us-tech-valuations-agnostic-assessment
- artificial-intelligence-office-and-factory-evidence-administrative-software-registry
- prudential-instruments-and-recent-inflationary-episode
- reaching-public-how-direct-central-bank-communication-anchors-citizens-inflation