Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
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2 of Matthew Yglesias's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Trade-offs.
Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.
Their wordsmaking it harder for schools to build a business model around nonperforming loans is a good idea
Every choice gives something up, so name the cost; and check, because some trade-offs everyone assumes are not real.
Their wordsBut under conditions of contemporary partisanship, a risk you take to expand access to health care is a drag on efforts to secure abortion rights or address climate change or help the poor.