Matt Steinglass

Schatting van hoe de 2e Kamer eruit zou kunnen zien met een kiesdrempel van 5%, gebaseerd op waar kiezers van kleine partijen vandaan kwamen/naartoe gingen: ​ VVD (24) ​ D66 (28) ​ PVV (28) ​ GL-PvdA (27) ​ CDA (26) ​ JA21 (10) ​ FVD (7) Meerderheden: D66-GL/PvdA-CDA; D66-CDA-VVD

There's no shame in the fall of Egypt's Pound. It's the opposite actually. If you keep pegging to the Dollar like Pakistan, high inflation from rising oil prices drives your real exchange rate up and then you're really in trouble. Egypt should be proud... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/right-vers...

Really good video on the Orban system from Nick Carlson at Business Explains the World. I make a couple of short appearances. Lots of good stuff about football (soccer) corruption, oligarch cronyism--and he draws the analogies to the US www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkS...

Nice nostalgic vibe to this year’s NFL season, 6 of 8 division-leading teams were founded in 1960 or earlier. NY, San Fran, KC, Cleveland, Buffalo—the Eisenhower years are back www.nfl.com/standings/

Simon Long, our editor-at-large, says that many of today’s problems are the same as those he wrote about two decades ago

A little late to the debate after a couple of weeks off, but here are a few thoughts on the Franco-German compromise on “Made in Europe” rules for cars.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

The timeline from “Trump International approved in Belgrade” to “Serbian govt faces protests” to “strongman loses election” suggests Trump/Kushner et al may face some reluctance towards future investments www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Russian strategy in attacks on western Ukraine is to make even “safe” areas of Ukraine feel unsafe, in order to drive Ukrainian refugees into the rest of Europe. Putin is trying to create Europe’s next refugee wave and he is responsible if it happens.

This is a really interesting piece, but I wonder about whether higher positivity about AI in the developing world is mostly about higher optimism about the future in general (and optimism-bias in question responses). It sort of looks that way. economist.com/internationa...

This was my take 3 years ago and I still think it's right, even as an RN-led France looms. The biggest problem with far-right success is that it substitutes illusory problems (immigration, EU federalism) for real ones (growth, capital union, China, Russia). www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Washington DC was an almost entirely segregated city in the 1970s-80s. It is now largely mixed, with large areas of easy racial crossover. Also restaurants and fresh produce are far better, and the murder rate is far lower than in the late 80s/early 90s

This is interesting, Russia’s Novatek apparently financing an LNG terminal project in Alaska in exchange for help getting sanctions on its Siberian LNG terminal lifted giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... US executives quit $25bn gas venture over claims of secret Russian control

What year is it

A propos of this: Europe must escape its reliance on American satellites economist.com/leaders/2026...

Mike Rogers became chairman of the House Intel Committee. Months later, his wife's defense contracting firm landed a billion-dollar government deal. As the couple's wealth grew, so did questions about the arrangement. @timmiller.bsky.social walks @adamkinzinger.substack.com through the timeline.

This is hilarious. Russia set up a fake think tank in Israel to produce a “sovereignty index” on which Russia placed fourth. The institute’s supposed experts (including Fukuyama!) had never heard of it vsquare.org/internationa...

Some reverse hopium for Democrats: polls consistently underestimate the vote share of a state’s dominant party (hence, Republicans in states Democrats hope to turn purple) economist.com/graphic-deta...

every day it's another Armando Iannuci moment for these fuckin chuckleheads

I repeat myself, but EUROPE: BUILD MORE ROCKET SHIPS economist.com/leaders/2026...

You can’t go two blocks in Vienna without seeing the word “schmuck”

This post reads so much better in German

Americans believe strongly that every corporation has an inalienable right to buy an election www.ft.com/content/637b...

PE teacher: we start by tossing up the ball. The game is four quarters, each 12 minutes long— Future journalist: I cannot possibly play the quarter of basketball that needs to be played here in just 12 minutes. It needs 18 at a minimum

Charlie Sykes says Trump is selling pardons from the White House. NYT: Billionaire’s Daughter Hired Former Trump Lawyer for $50 Million.

Supreme Court rejects Trump's order to end hormone treatments for transgender prisoners

It’s going to be really hard for Volodymyr Zelensky to get sitcom roles after this

Can somebody tell me: is $25 billion a lot of money

The president of the United States is not emotionally well

This is a wild take when we’re in the middle of what could turn out to be one of the largest and most catastrophic misallocations of capital in human history driven by billionaire groupthink that was caused by a shared misinformation bubble that they created on purpose.