Ben Krauss

East Coast United States, Washington, D.C., United States

Editorial Assistant and Saturday Correspondent at Slow Boring

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Wednesday thread

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

Everyone’s going crazy over the New York Magazine story about how everyone uses ChatGPT in college now. I think the solution is in class essays, and I think a good justification for that is below…
Tuesday thread

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

I’m afraid that against my better judgment I’m now deeply emotionally invested in the Nuggets playoff run, and will tie a lot of well-being over the course of next few weeks to how they perform. Probably won’t end well. But wow was last night magical.
Saturday thread

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

The Myth of the Regretful Trump VoterWith the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second term in the rearview mirror, a new crop of media stories is starting to emerge: the tale of the regretful Trump voter…
Wednesday thread

3 weeks ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

I think it’s great that Pete has a substack, but I think he should write his posts less like fundraising emails and more like a regular writer. Don’t randomly bold things and don’t keep paragraphs one to two sentences assuming everyone has tiny attention spans. Let the people know what you actually have to say!
Tuesday thread

3 weeks ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

My buddy is the manager of a Tesla dealership. The amount of calls he gets from angry liberal customers…
Monday thread

3 weeks ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

I think House Republicans just chronically overrate how much they’ll be damaged by coming out against Trump from time to time. Don Bacon overperforms, in part, because he’s seen as his own man. Glad to see him make the obvious call here. Hegseth is a stone cold idiot!
Thursday thread

4 weeks ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

I wasn’t planning to write again (yet) about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador despite an order protecting him from being sent there, but I continue to be frustrated by politicians from both parties (and their associated media outlets) telling only half the story and skewing the facts in one direction …
Wednesday thread

4 weeks ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

This is a good primer to send someone who is making the Deluzio/Trump/Sanders argument about trade leading to reindustrialization.
Monday thread

1 month ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

Paul Krugman’s great here. Democrats really do not need to be playing the tariff game. It’s bad policy and bad politics.
Thursday thread

1 month ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

All the arguments for Trump's tariffs are wrong and badWell, after a stock market crash, a bond market crash, and a blizzard of recession predictions, Donald Trump has paused some of his massive “Liberation Day” tariffs. But the reprieve is only partial and temporary. The very high tariff on China is still in place (and in fact has been increased). The 10% tariffs on all imports are still in effect.