The Economist apparently thinks countries are outlined borders populated by fungible Homo Economicus. They assume being in america makes you think and act like an american, when in reality it’s the opposite: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran...

“Another influential paper showed that ancestral experience with cutting-edge technology, especially in the year 1500, was a strong predictor of modern prosperity, even stronger than the measures the Brown economists had created. And once again, the relationship between past and present success was vastly stronger once one adjusted for migration, once one noticed that peoples may well matter more than places.”

I'm a paying Economist subscriber and even I cannot read the link :-(

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Nah, I don't think I will.

> First, give Donald Trump some credit. He promised to restore order to the border, and he did.

...after threatening to primary anyone who voted for Senator Lankford's (R-OK) asylum reform bill in Feb 2024 because he wanted to run on it. He said the quiet part out loud: he prolonged the issue specifically so that he could run on it. In the spirit of fairness we're going to pretend that it didn't happen?

That's not fairness, that's sweeping for Trump.

The political racism is pretty disgusting