Slow Boring

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic PrimaryIf you’ve read the subtitle and already feel gripped by a need to know my stance on Cuomo vs. Mamdani specifically, skip to the end! But I recommend reading from the top…

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

Gonna shamelessly link to my own tweet. But listen to this interview with Rep. McBride. I think her theory of politics is spot on and applicable to many other issues Link.

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

I was at WelcomeFest a couple of weeks ago, and my role was to moderate a panel featuring rural Blue Dogs who overperformed the national fundamentals by enough to win in districts that Donald Trump carried. And I’ve been annoyed that the leftist hater community has since dubbed the event “Abundance Coachella,” because I think this massively overstates the actual role that abundance ideas are playing in the larger push for a big tent Democratic Party.

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

One of the most frequent questions I get is why I’m not spending more time sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and his threat to the stability of American democracy. One reason is temperamental. But a much bigger reason is that, analytically, I don’t think that telling my audience to become more alarmed is generally a very productive course of action.

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Ben Krauss

Today we talked to Randy Clarke, the head of DC’s Metro system, WMATA. If you’re a transit nerd, you probably know about Clarke — he’s become something of a celebrity for his public presence and disciplined improvement of a transit system that was facing disaster in the aftermath of COVID (and the decision to allow large swathes of federal employees to …