External Processing

My personal Substack

I write about crime, data, and crime data. Come join, it'll be fun!

Life and lesser things

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

Making data fun again

Deep dives into causal inference,("explainers"), an oral history of economics podcast told through economists' personal stories, announcements about workshops, letters from readers and random ChatGPT things.

Prevention science has taught us how to prevent a wide range of mental and behavioral health problems and how to promote healthy development, supportive parenting, and community cohesion. Mobilizing this knowledge is critical for improving lives.

Sheriffs and the Political Power of Law Enforcement

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Police and criminal justice reform

The latest updates on the work at Civilytics to rebuild our democracy.

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Economics and other interesting stuff

A daily newsletter for the intellectually omnivorous, from Noah Brier & Colin Nagy.