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Assistant Instructional Professor at Harris Public Policy | he/him https://chrisclapp.org/
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If you work for a #nonprofit, let us help you make the world a better place w/ science! On September 17, match w/ researchers at the Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference to tackle your charitable-giving questions: fs2.formsite.com/UChicagoEcon... #philanthropy #charity #econsky

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The Philadelphia Fed's Grad Student mentoring program deadline is coming up: 6/20 ⏰ We prioritize nearby universities but have accepted applicants from all over the country. Apply! www.philadelphiafed.org/the-economy/...

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Great picture from graduation w/ two fantastic students from the Harris Class of 2025, their son (Class of ~2050), & a stellar colleague!

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Excellent column by Tom Friedman ... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

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Disability Policy Friends: I haven't seen too many posts about this so I want to make sure people are aware. The Department of Energy is attempting to roll back certain Section 504 protections and will do so unless they receive "significant adverse comments" by June 16th.

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I just found out about The OEC: an impressive collection of policy-focused opinion articles by our fourth-year Public Policy students! Articles are based on their capstone projects. voices.uchicago.edu/undergradope...

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Despite protests already being managed by the Los Angeles Police Department, President Trump is escalating the situation by threatening to deploy roughly 500 active-duty Marines to the streets of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Remain peaceful. Don’t fall into the trap that extremists are hoping for.

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Today I almost crashed my bike on my way home because

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Great article from the UVA Alumni Association magazine explaining the impacts of the Trump admin's new policies on research & why they matter to the audience (a broad set of college grads who are mostly not familiar w/ the ins & outs of university research). uvamagazine.org/articles/res...

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It is 2025. Everyone has a handheld supercomputer. AI can write essays, create art, & generate almost-believable video. And I am still entering student letter grades by hand via error-prone drop-down boxes that are disconnected from my class' learning management system.

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Indescribable video. The population health effects of this horror will persist for generations. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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🧵 When authoritarian leaders attack judges as "enemies," history shows us exactly where this leads. Trump's assault on "USA HATING JUDGES" isn't just inflammatory rhetoric—it's following a script written by strongmen worldwide. But other countries show us how to fight back.

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The slaying of a beautiful instrumental variable by an ugly fact.

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Have you done this yet? Did you want to? Deadline today.

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Other higher ed institutions should offer to enroll Harvard students, but allow them to take courses at Harvard. This has been done before. In my 3rd year of grad school, I spent the year at the University of Chicago as a visitor, but my tuition was paid to my home institution of UW-Madison.

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Michigan's @slotkin.senate.gov was the only Dem voting with the Republicans to revoke California's waiver. Disappointing. rollcall.com/2025/05/22/i...

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Seeing headlines about 1.5–2 years of gains from a 6-wk AI pgm? That's not the intervention impact. It's back of envelope & assumes estimated daily gains from 1st 6 wk scale linearly Actual effect: .23 SDs Encouraging for internatl ed, but more careful thought & less razzle-dazzle, please.

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An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Trump, who insisted foreign suppliers would eat the tariffs, now demands that Walmart eat them at the retail level. What Walmart needs is everyday low tariffs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The article this links to is gruesome and fascinating

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TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

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I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu

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Apparently Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines and Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea are the standard-bearers of the conservative and liberal wings of the church, and were both present in the Conclave. So, the Church appropriately cloistered their standard-bearers.

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