Archive - The Argument

Should DayQuil be legal?

The combo drug grift is dangerous

12 hrs ago • Eli Richman

It's not good but I want it

The strange appeal of bad art, or, how I read 27 romance novels in 3 weeks

Jul 5 • Jerusalem Demsas and Milan Singh

Your God-given right to be happy

Medieval kings would envy you.

Jul 3 • Jerusalem Demsas and Kelsey Piper

Women aren't born wanting to earn less money

The myth of women's "preferences"

Jul 1 • Maia Mindel

June 2026

How to quit a quarter-trillion-dollar gambling habit

We legalized sports betting. Tens of millions are hooked. Now what?

Jun 30 • Joseph Politano

The great American math collapse

We've erased two decades of progress in math.

Jun 29 • Kelsey Piper

The populists lost

A major housing fight just ended with the better argument winning

Jun 28 • Jerusalem Demsas and Kobe Yank-Jacobs

Elon Musk's zero accountability life

World's richest man denies hurting world's poorest

Jun 26 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs

Are forecasters sleeping on Democrats?

We put Cook's election ratings on trial

Jun 24 • Lakshya Jain and Erin Covey

48:15

I ran the numbers. Trump cost us 274,000 jobs.

The bipartisan return to protectionism has been a costly mistake

Jun 24 • Milan Singh

Why is it so hard for liberals to take the W?

The YIMBY movement has transformed American housing politics for the better.

Jun 23 • Jerusalem Demsas

The spectacular failure of the first AI Super PAC

The crypto playbook doesn't work for AI

Jun 22 • Kelsey Piper

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