Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

lately … i’ve been feeling like the the best are full of passionate intensity, and the worst lack all conviction ?

Has anyone had the take that the No Kings protests clearly worked and got a lot of people across the country to stay politically active instead of sitting on the sidelines yet, or is that still free real estate?

Who will be the leftist presidential candidate in 2028?

My grandfather, on his way to drop big exploding things on some Nazis' heads

A 47-year-old man was detained after allegedly using an excavator to damage a government service center in Xi'an on Nov 9, local police said. No injuries were reported, and the center resumed normal operations that afternoon. The man is under criminal coercive measures.

Imagine a historian in 2035 writing a political history of the 2020s, and he points out that every election, the out-of-power party won a cost-of-living election and then used their mandate to ignore or exacerbate affordability only to be destroyed in the next election, where voters again said “to be clear, I don’t want whatever bullshit you’re up to, I just want life to feel more affordable,” and then, once again, the winning politicians prioritized everything except affordability, and this story repeated itself over and over again. One of my strongest held political opinions right now is: Democrats should do everything they can to avoid that history being written.

India's poverty reduction is the second biggest in world history, just behind China's. India is now growing at around 6.5%, which is about the same as China in 2014. Manufacturing is growing right along side services. More people should pay attention. noahpinion.blog/p/india-is-q…

.@S_Rabinovitch: “The Chinese government’s white paper…tried to explain Mr Xi’s doctrine. Running to nearly 13,000 words, it might seem to cover a lot of ground. Alas, the content is overwhelmingly vague.” economist.com/china/2026/11/…

Toyota is bringing their Japanese-style kei trucks to the U.S. under the revived Scion brand Releasing in 2027

[read about what’s happening with AI] ME: Wow we’re actually legit fucked this is so bad. [go outside] ME: Wait those people are all acting like nothing unusual is happening. Maybe I was just in a paranoid bubble? Yeah it must be that. Phew. [read more about what’s happening with AI] ME: Wait no we ARE fucked. Shit. It’s all those people outside who are in a delusional bubble. [go outside] ME: Wait...

Solar power is booming in Africa. Imports of solar panels into most of the continent have almost tripled in the last two years, while Morroco has recently doubled its manufacture of them. The result is to greatly increase electric power capacity. ember-energy.org/latest-insi…

The South. Wow. Just wow.👇

Democrats won the midterms --- but so did the tax revolt In myriad states, the most leftwing electorate in modern history rallied behind anti-tax referenda Many Dems catered to this mood, running on tax cuts, "no tax on cops," and property tax abolition vox.com/politics/510291/demo…