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This is one of my major worries for 2026 and beyond. The ethnic and tribal conflict in Ethiopia is not finished, and it killed 700,000 people not long ago. Ethiopia still covets sea access and Eritrea, which at times in the past belong to Ethiopia anyway. Israel has recognized Somaliland, with a variety of other […] The post Fear of larger wars in East Africa appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesIs there a British productivity comeback?Greenland fact of the dayPodcast with Sa...
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This paper studies how online dating platforms have impacted marital outcomes, assortative matching, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates in the United States. We construct county-level measures of online dating usage using data from website-based platforms (2002-2013) and mobile app-based platforms (2017-2023). Leveraging county-level variation and an instrumental variable strategy, we show in the desktop […] The post What happens when dating goes online? appeared first on Marginal R...
Martin Luther King, Jr. stressed our common humanity, which would have made him unpopular with almost everyone today
Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were driven to distraction by the fanatical fact-checking characteristic of. The post Fact-Checking the New Yorker appeared first on First Things
The president sees no difference between his whims and the power of the American empire
The chairman of the Federal Reserve played a savvy game publicly and privately
Hundreds of protesters are believed to have been killed or injured, and many more detained