Megan Mcardle
Washington Post
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Megan:
Missouri’s effort to limit gender treatments for adults is a bad idea
Adults should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to have gender-affirming treatments or surgery. → Read More
Environmentalists have a blind spot in the debate over gas stoves
Banning gas stoves is a boneheaded approach to the real, but modest, problems they present. → Read More
Southwest’s biggest problem? Staffing.
That’s hardly the airline's only problem, but it’s probably the one problem that made all the others worse. → Read More
Why America doesn’t love HMOs as much as I do
Managed systems really can provide superior health care. → Read More
Twitter’s action against journalists exposes its transparency problem
By far the most interesting of Elon Musk's experiments with his social media platform are his fitful changes to moderation. → Read More
It’s surprising how little crypto’s meltdown has mattered
Fourteen years on, the digital currency still isn’t acting like real money. → Read More
Musk is right to end Twitter’s fight against covid disinformation
Content moderators aren't that good at recognizing untruths, and when they block tweets, it only boosts distrust of the public health establishment. → Read More
Has Elon Musk succeeded by luck — or does he know what he’s doing?
Luck is far from the only thing that Twitter's new owner has going for him, but he does take bigger bets than most entrepreneurs do. → Read More
Disney’s CEO can help the world by buying up streaming companies
Bob Iger has a talent for dealmaking, which should benefit a market in desperate need of mergers. → Read More
As Britain’s productivity falls, Brexit’s promise remains unfulfilled
"Singapore-on-Thames" was once at least a plausible theory of how Brexit might turn out, but that's looking less likely. → Read More
Top law schools bow out of U.S. News rankings. What’s the thinking?
The schools claim only the highest motives, but it's impossible not to notice the timing. → Read More
The FTX calamity explains why crypto is irrelevant
To become a serious, world-changing financial technology, crypto will first need to be trustworthy. → Read More
Homeowners aren’t ready to face how much less their houses are worth
The only way the housing market can return to normal is for homeowners to eventually, painfully admit they're poorer. → Read More
Democrats took an unconscionable gamble — and it worked
Democrats staked our country’s future to improve their own electoral chances. Unfortunately, it seems to have worked. → Read More
What journalists should do if Trump returns to Twitter
It's old news that his tweets are terrible. So we shouldn't cover them. → Read More
The best way to fix our divisions? Learn to like each other again.
Americans are living in separate informational bubbles, but we can break through them. → Read More
Just when you thought Musk’s Twitter foray couldn’t get wilder
No rational buyer would cut the company's workforce by 75 percent, right? → Read More
Gen X is used to flying under the radar. That’ll end if it goes full GOP.
A New York Times poll found that those ages 45 to 64 are far more likely to support Republicans in the midterms than those in other generations. → Read More
Musk will likely buy Twitter. Now he has to run a company he doesn’t want.
There are risks to democracy and the company itself. → Read More
What happens when Biden actually has to go out and campaign?
The pandemic did him a big favor in keeping him off the 2020 trail. → Read More