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Columnist at the Washington Post. Opinions my own. Email me: Megan.McArdle -at- Buy my book, The Up Side of Down

Washington, DC
Joined September 2008

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    Instead of right and left, writes our politics are increasingly being defined by the rooted and the mobile

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    Jan 3

    Read on the politics of the mobile versus those of the rooted:

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    Jan 3

    WaPo has hired , most recently chief elections analyst and a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. He joins the Opinions staff as a data analyst and political columnist:

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    Jan 2

    Washington Post op-ed for Wednesday -- Megan McArdle Richard Cohen and , on the mounting costs of President Trump's failures of leadership: "A presidency shapes the public character of the nation."

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    I never would have gotten tenure if my colleagues knew that I think pop culture distracts people from giving social problems a good ole fashioned Care Bear Stare

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    Jan 1

    Mitt Romney, about to be sworn into office, writes in new oped: “On balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.”

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    Since starting a kitchen renovation in September, almost all my cooking consists of mixing meat & veg with marinades in a baggie and sticking the results in a crockpot/toaster oven. I am seriously thinking of writing a cookbook called "The Ziploc Chef".

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    From : The latest journalism scandal proves it: Partisan writing is one way to keep journalists honest.

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    28 Dec 2018

    As 2018 winds down, everyone is wondering: what's next? , , , , , and dive in in today's special episode

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    "The biggest problem with the First Step Act isn’t that it lets too many people out of prison, but that it still lets too many go in," writes

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    27 Dec 2018

    Why is marriage so much more stable among today's u-middle class? The kind of "intensive parenting" pursued by this set, detailed in this , is a heck of a lot easier with a second parent.

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    Want to feel old? We are as far from the late Bronze Age collapse as the late Bronze Age collapse was from the beginning of the Indo-European expansion

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    21 Dec 2018

    Yeah I would say so. Now Rs will be legitimately worried that there are few to no checks on Trump going full Trump which is not what Republicans are down with.

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    Still a lot of unneeded verbiage. Next time it will be "Wall, Congress! Wall! Wall!"

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    God bless the weirdos who run the last fun government twitter

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    20 Dec 2018

    It is common for researchers to correct for imperfect adherence in a RCT with "as-treated," "per-protocol" and "on-treatment" analyses. These are all wrong, always and everywhere, because these methods reintroduce the confounding that necessitated an RCT in the first place

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    I Was Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration, but After Today I Guess Now I Am a Lobbyist for the Recreational Vehicle Industry, Which Plays a Vital Role In Creating Jobs For Thousands of Americans

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    20 Dec 2018

    It might interest you to know that the time it takes to learn how to be an effective farmworker is about 3 years. How do we know? Because it was built into slave plantations' financial records. That's how we bloody well know.

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