Author: Matt Bruenig

In late 2021, I had solar panels installed onto the roof of my house. After some bureaucratic delays, the solar panels began producing electricity for me at the beginning of January 2022. I have been tracking the performance of the panels for the last year in order to assess what the financial impact of the… Continue reading Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022

A few days ago, Matt Yglesias tweeted the following comment about a New York Times piece on Joe Biden’s record on organized labor: What’s interesting to me about the tweet is not the underlying question of whether Joe Biden is good or bad on labor, but rather how it relates to some of the problems… Continue reading The Contradictions of Deliberative Democracy

I read this piece about babies on planes by Stephanie Murray at The Atlantic, as well as many negative reactions to it on social media. Murray uses the example to touch on broader questions posed by parents who bring young children into public spaces that are not exclusively used by children. Some people think parents… Continue reading Babies on Planes

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people talk about pronouns on Twitter, perhaps because of Elon Musk tweeting that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci.” Due to my involvement in left-wing organizations, I have been following the pronoun discourse since the late 2000s and so I wanted to lay out some thoughts on it based on how… Continue reading Pronouns

Last month, I wrote a piece summarizing data from the Society for Family Planning about the impact of the abortion restrictions implemented after the Dobbs Supreme Court case. In short, abortions conducted through formal providers declined by about 12,500 per month in restrictive states and increased by 7,140 in non-restrictive states, which indicates that many… Continue reading Abortion Pills After Dobbs