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If we ever come out on the other side of this, I think attitudes about the danger of concentration of wealth for democracy will be different than they have been.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 12 days ago • 1414 comments

Filipe nails it. The Trump admin just forced the Justice Department to openly engage in corruption, and there is zero cost! No consequence! Trump is now stronger than he was a week ago. We now know more about what Congress will allow, and every Justice Department lawyer now knows what he can do

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 14 days ago • 464 comments

i suppose all we on the outside can do now is hope that the americans' sincere collective passion for litigation is stronger than their death drive

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

This is corruption on a scale unseen before in American history. www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 15 days ago • 122 comments

With Rubio and Bondi I think it’s pretty clear that not even the seemingly maybe acceptable nominees will be anything but instruments of fascism, so perhaps people with decision making power should conduct themselves accordingly

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not legible. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.

submitted 25 days ago • 48 comments

Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

The unitary executive theory not only holds that Senate-confirmed officers have no special authority. It also holds that the president can throw random drug-addicted Nazis off the street at Congressionally-authorized agencies and let them go wild.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

submitted 27 days ago • 853 comments

It's not often that a theory paper piques my interest these days*, but this by @snageebali.bsky.social and coauthors, on the logic behind zero-sum thinking by voters, is just brilliant -- and so relevant and urgent! www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

This is a statement of abdication by Schumer. An abdication of his duty to fight against the insurrectionist party, rather than suggest collaborating with it. And really an abdication of his duty to at least comprehend what is happening.

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

The folk wisdom among political consultants that you can never send too many fundraising emails - which dates at least to Sasha Issenberg’s book on the Obama campaign - is a great example of the limits of A/B testing, and the perils of extrapolating from (even well-identified!) marginal effects

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

I don’t have too many hard lines but building more housing ASAP is both a political and moral imperative and any state or local Democrat who gets in the way of it is in the wrong. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

submitted 89 days ago • 7 comments

I think about this paper a lot www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

submitted 94 days ago • 399 comments

This suggests that most of the Democratic losses observed last Tuesday (esp. among Hispanic citizens) likely preceded February 2024.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting a paper for new users #polisky Incumbent governments are getting waxed in part due to global economic trends. In @ajpseditor.bsky.social Sebastian Juhl, Laron Williams and I explain why and how electoral results are cross-nationally correlated. Free forever: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I could be seen as an apologist for a good deal of the Democratic Party's actions and strategy, but I can muster no defense of their Supreme Court justices or the center-left legal establishment. www.cnn.com/2024/11/10/p...

submitted 110 days ago • 34 comments

The phenomenon of Scam PACs deserves more attention. Zhao Li’s paper on the topic is an excellent start. csdp.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

In the long run, Merrick Garland's delays in appointing Jack Smith may be more consequential for American politics than anything else the Biden administration accomplished.

submitted 113 days ago • 11 comments

Why should I move? They’re the ones who suck.

submitted 114 days ago • 71 comments

I'm excited to share a new tool to explore FEC spending data. Working with a team of research assistants, we cleaned, coded, and classified millions of expenditure records. You can access it here: election-spending-data.shinyapps.io/dashboard/

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '25! Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_pre... International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to share new work with my coauthor, Colin Case! We produce issue-specific estimates for the left-right policy positions of congressional candidates Parts of this project are now under contract w/ CUP's Elements in Quant Methods 🥳 --- feedback welcome!! osf.io/preprints/os...

submitted 165 days ago • 3 comments

New working paper with @joshmccrain.bsky.social, Arianna Ornaghi, and Nic Mastrorocco. We look at ownership consolidation in TV news and its effects on local coverage, news viewership, and political knowledge. Draft is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 169 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

submitted 248 days ago • 19 comments

I don't know if this has registered so much outside Brazil, but speaking as someone who knows the region well, and still has lots of family there: this has been unimaginably horrible and devastating. The climate dystopia has arrived, and it's really, really awful... www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 291 days ago • 25 comments

New paper! Now open access at Public Administration Review: Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... w/ Dan Schiff, @kaylynjschiff.bsky.social, Ian Adams & Scott Mourtgos polisky

submitted 490 days ago • 1 comment