Joshua Preiss

Review of Just Work for All in @PoPpublicsphere. A few excerpts: "In debates between liberal egalitarians and libertarians, realism and idealism, and 'capitalism' and 'socialism,' we have lost sight of just work in contemporary political theorizing." tinyurl.com/2kr7rmd3

Later today @ZohranKMamdani and @RitchieTorres will announce a $2M expansion of the Neighborhood Internet program—700 low-income households in the Bronx & Manhattan to get broadband access by this summer, with thousands more over the next two years. bxtimes.com/mayor-mamdani-…

New newsletter: MODERN FATHERHOOD WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO A 1950'S DAD Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled. Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled. You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life. What's behind this half-century transformation? Today's piece combines history, economic analysis, and gorgeous charts galore from @AzizSunderji

Gonna go out on a limb and say nah they haven’t been.

A shocking new NBER economics study finds that workers today are about half as likely to receive a better-paying outside job offer as they were in the 1980s — and that fully ONE-THIRD of this decline is attributable to “employer concentration and the growing use of noncompetes.”

The last time the Mets won a game, I think Anthropic was worth maybe $200 million.

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Ryan Jeffers is now just 86 triples away from breaking Rod Carew's all-time Twins record.

This is proper etiquette: the Iranian dude disputed Trump’s claims AFTER the futures closed. Very polite, and in line with warfare rules during the Golden Age of Grift 🌳🙏

@MattBruenig The same is true with regulation, including financial market regulation. Complexity undermines accountability and concentrates power, even when the system is transparent.

This shit was so complicated, the government literally couldn't find people who could implement. People really got to start giving weight to simplicity as a goal in itself. The tax credit fetish is insane.

@Chartfest1 m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBkRN9…

Transports were +4%

An interview with Hannah Postel about her paper in the Winter 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, "Asian Immigration to the United States in Historical Perspective" aeaweb.org/research/asian…

@Eric_Erins I thought he couldn’t top “the pope is WEAK on crime” but “the ballroom is deeply important to our National Security” just might do it

NYT headline for the ages

I love how everyone is yelling at each other about how many pages a week a person should be reading without specifying anything about what they’re reading. It’s like having a debate about how many food items a person should eat in a week.

Who mixed their labor with the straight of hormuz first?

Trump backed down. No credit to Congress, which barely made a whimper. Credit to the American people—progressive activists & anti-war conservative voices like @TuckerCarlson, @mtgreenee, and many more. We need an anti-Epstein class, anti-war, pro-working class coalition.

Trump: "You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. We've got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person."

I'd encourage every Twins fan to watch this video and see what this means to Byron Buxton (and what Byron Buxton means to everyone in that clubhouse).

Khanna on Hasan Piker: "What should the standard of the Democrats be? Should we not go on Joe Rogan? Should we just have purity tests of canceling folks? The lesson of the last election is we've gotta be out there. We've gotta engage. It's a complex, messy, multiracial democracy. I will defend my views, but the people who are saying 'don't engage' will cost us future elections."

1. Excited to be launching the Center for Law and the Economy @ColumbiaLaw with @LevMenand. The Center will focus on pressing questions of economic governance and help train the next generation of scholars and policy leaders. wsj.com/us-news/law/li…