Around the Traps 14/11/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Frank Bongornio on kingmaker-labor-warrior-and-no-stranger-to-scandal-graham-richardson-dies-at-76
• Michelle Arrow on extraordinary-and-occasionally-inept-before-the-dismissal-the-whitlam-government-changed-australia-forever
• Eli Hayes and Darren Lim on not-every-critical-mineral-equal-australia-s-policy-should-reflect
• Mark the Ballot on polling-update
• Mark the Graph on australias-first-truly-domestic-inflation-cycle-in-decades
• Daniel Ghezelbash and Jane MacAdam on as-australia-welcomes-its-millionth-refugee-its-hardline-border-policies-endure-we-can-lead-by-example-again
• Jo Coghlan on how-ac-dcs-1975-debut-shocked-australian-culture
• croaking cassandra on government-departments-championing-bigger-roles-for-themselves
• Michelle Grattan on in-dumping-net-zero-the-liberals-have-thumbed-their-noses-at-voters-they-need-to-win
• Bernice Ma and Samia Badji on the-ndis-shifts-almost-27m-a-year-in-mental-health-costs-alone-our-new-study-suggests
• Natalie Sambhi on anchored-region-what-new-australia-indonesia-security-treaty-really-means
• Melissa Jardine et al on preparing-when-disaster-conflict-converge
• Mathew Newman on rise-rise-geopolitical-risk
• Antony Green on time-to-change-the-electoral-act-to-fix-faults-in-senate-counting

OZ Climate

• victorias-biggest-solar-project-partially-built-by-robots-injects-first-power-into-the-grid 
  
• australias-comfortable-advantage-in-geothermal-heating-and-cooling
  
• andrew-forrest-says-real-zero-is-already-the-winning-business-case-in-three-key-fossil-fuel-guzzling-industries
  
• another-major-solar-battery-hybrid-project-hits-financial-close-as-physics-and-engineering-trump-politics
  
• australias-most-powerful-battery-hit-by-catastrophic-failure-of-transformer
  
• its-incredibly-expensive-global-wind-giant-says-turbine-prices-have-peaked-but-other-costs-are-high
  
• a-clear-decline-iea-says-faster-transition-to-renewables-equals-lower-household-prices
  
• can-you-design-a-better-time-of-use-tariff-than-chris-bowens-solar-sharer
  
• was-the-high-cycling-of-australias-most-powerful-battery-too-much-for-crippled-transformer
  
• sloppy-misleading-and-funded-by-whom-rainforest-reserves-under-fire-at-senate-misinformation-inquiry
  
• the-wheels-fell-off-farmer-tells-senate-how-misinformation-killed-a-community-battery-project
  
• Frank Jotzo on own-goal-why-the-nationals-retreat-on-net-zero-would-be-bad-economics
• Hussein Dia on ev-charging-deserts-in-regional-australia-are-slowing-the-shift-to-clean-transport
• Adam Morton on coalition-brawl-australia-2050-net-zero-emissions-target
• Mark the Graph on the-twenty-one-deadly-sins-of-net-zero , quick-reflection-liberal-backflip-on-energy-policy
• Rod Sims and Baethen Muller on whyalla-steelworks-low-cost-green-iron
• Patrick Commins on coalition-net-zero-power-bills-international-energy-agency
• Michael Keating on net-zero-debate-evidence
• Ana Malos on the-liberals-dropped-net-zero-will-it-make-any-difference-to-australias-climate-response
• Graham Readfearn on facebook-community-groups-and-maggot-infested-rats-the-inner-workings-of-australias-climate-misinformation-war

Northern America

• Barbara McQuade on jeanine-pirros-case-dc-sandwich-thrower-was-downright-lawless
• Brad De Long on bubbles-productive-and-unproductive , is-it-life-liberty-and-democracy
• Rod Drehers diary on americas-crazy-train  Thanks Nick
• Richard Hanania on groyperization-accelerating Thanks Nick
• a wild logos on  the-metaphysics-of-maga Thanks Nick
• Valerie Thomas on how-the-us-cut-climate-changing-emissions-while-its-economy-more-than-doubled
• institutional economics on year-one-of-trump-2.0 , trumps-dollarization-delusion
• the conversable economist on federal-reserve-accountability-for-actions-during-the-pandemic
• Adam Serwer on mafia-style-american-politics
• calculated risk on the-next-financial-crisis
• Kruggers on republicans-are-damaged-by-their-own-cruelty , war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-grocery-prices-are-way-down , the-republican-brain-doesnt-want-to-understnd-healthcare , the-decline-and-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation
• Jonquilyn Hill on health-care-insurance-cost-premiums-2026
• Russell Berman and Jonathan Lemire on democrats-folded-government-shutdown-end
• noahpinion on zohrans-real-problems-arent-what-you-think
• Mark Liebovich on trump-lame-duck-third-term-prospects
• Fintan O'Toole on a-guy-who-never-dies
• Jeet Heer on chuck-schumer-shutdown-senate-democrats
• Andrew Prokop on epstein-emails-trump-hours-house-virginia-giuffre
• Jonathan Chait on trump-epstein-email

Europe

• Mary Harrington on the-king-and-the-swarm Thanks Nick
• Tim Harford on should-we-put-a-high-price-on-work-visas
• Peter Layton on a-visual-guide-to-14-of-the-drones-wreaking-havoc-in-ukraine-russia-and-beyond
• Alex Tabarrok on european-stagnation
• Sam Knight on the-mess-at-the-bbc-will-never-end

Asia

• Amy Chew on anwar-s-international-success-sours-home
• Kruggers on why-china-will-rule-renewable-energy
• noahpinion on i-want-the-japanese-future-back
• Tyler Cowen on how-has-japan-managed-its-debt-ratio
• Nina Lakhani on israel-attacks-palestine-water
• Saqlain Rizve on why-does-taliban-remain-point-influence-bangladesh
• Khang Vu on will-north-korea-defend-china-taiwan-war
• Richard Heydarian on where-philippines-might-lead-asean

Wonk

• Phillip Kastner on can-the-world-prevent-a-genocide-in-sudan
• Ray Laurence on the-roman-empire-built-300-000-kilometres-of-roads-new-study
• Brad De Long on a-note-reitter-translates-marx-as-he-was
• Dennis Muller on bbc-resignations-over-trump-scandal-show-the-pressures-on-public-broadcasters-and-why-they-must-resist-them
• Tyler Cowen on in-defense-of-schumpeter
• Alex Tabarrok on more-from-less-optimizing-vaccine-doses
• Febrian Ruddyard on case-un-reform-cannot-wait
• the conversable economist on noncompete-agreements-across-high-income-countries
• Nina Khaze on albania-s-ai-generated-minister-impressive-spectacle-questionable-reform

General

• Andor Kiss on james-watson-exemplified-the-best-and-worst-of-science-from-monumental-discoveries-to-sexism-and-cutthroat-competition
• William Crozier on how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-colour-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of
• Michael Stein on 55-million-years-australias-oldest-crocodile-eggshells-found-in-queensland
• Adam Schatz on alice-coltrane-monument-eternal
• Kylie Cairns and Melanie Fillios on dogs-10-000-years-ago-roamed-with-bands-of-humans-and-came-in-all-shapes-and-sizes

Climate

• Simon O'Connor et al on green-finance-was-supposed-to-contribute-solutions-to-climate-change-so-far-its-fallen-well-short
• Melanie Pill and Georgia Hammersly on why-cop30-may-disappoint-again
• Robyn Eckersly on from-trumps-wrecking-ball-to-chinas-electrifying-rise-geopolitics-hang-heavy-over-this-years-climate-talks
• Alex Dietzel and Katherine Fitzpatrick on five-key-issues-at-the-un-climate-summit-in-brazil-and-why-they-matter-to-you-and-the-planet
• Moyhu on october-global-surface-templs-down-0011
• ocean acidification on consequences-of-climate-change-for-foraminifera-and-foraminifera-communities
• Pep Canadell et al on the-worlds-carbon-emissions-continue-to-rise-but-35-countries-show-progress-in-cutting-carbon
• skeptical science on new_research

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• science-and-religious-dogmatism
  
• what-intro-stats-textbook-to-use
  
• the-accupuncture-paradox-and-its-resolution
  
• from-the-three-branches-of-government-to-the-bidirectional-nature-of-legal-reasoning-in-a-way-that-is-similar-to-how-statistics-works-and-should-work-in-the-real-world
  
• survey-statistics-weights-and-mrp-for-voters
  
• belief-in-the-law-of-small-numbers-as-a-way-to-understand-the-replication-crisis-and-silly-researchers-who-continue-to-cite-discredited-behavioral-research
  
• noted-economist-likes-to-talk-about-demographics-but-he-doesnt-know-the-actual-facts
  
• the-value-of-close-reading-larry-summers-edition
  
• how-is-it-that-this-problem-with-its-21-data-points-is-so-much-easier-to-handle-with-1-predictor-than-with-16-predictors
  
• the-fifth-anniversary-of-a-viral-histogram
  
• Kaiser Fung on govt-shutdown-shines-light-on-missing-data ,we-arent-getting-2-000-checks
• Freakometrics on disentangled deep smoothed bootstrap for fair imbalanced regression
• the grumpy economist on causation-does-not-imply-variation Thanks Tyler

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• global inequality on javais-toujours-raison Thanks Nick
• Rowan Williams on we-who-wrestle-with-god-by-jordan-b-peterson-review-a-culture-warrior-out-of-his-depth Thanks Nick
• Tyler Cowen on two-books-i-hope-you-do-not-mood-affiliate-against, violent-saviors , marked-by-time
• Ruth Marcus on how-the-supreme-court-defines-liberty

Vox Wonk

• takatoshi-ito-scholarship-japans-economy-transformed 
  
• tariffs-global-imbalances-and-dollar 
  
• lessons-denmarks-eight-hour-workday-reform 
  
• supply-chains-and-free-trade-agreements
  
• hidden-costs-of-chinas-industrial-policy
  
• navigating-2022-inflation-surge-lessons-monetary-policy-frameworks
  
• swedish-household-debt-not-too-high-look-solvency-and-liquidity-not-debt-income
  
• supply-shocks-and-inflation-timely-insights-financial-markets
  
• frontiers-digital-finance-part-1-global-perspective
  
• generative-ai-uneven-adoption-labour-market-returns-and-policy-implications
  
• no-eu-does-not-impose-45-tariff-itself
  
• frontiers-digital-finance-part-2-stablecoins-monetary-singleness-tokenisation-and
  
• paying-euroscepticism