There is nothing more patriotic than wanting better lives for your neighbors.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

“The party base is looking for fighters and disrupters—and will cast aside solid politicians who they don’t think will aggressively battle Donald Trump, MAGA, and right-wing billionaires.” Latest from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social

If you want to make the world a better place, you (yes, you!) are going to need to sacrifice a little sometimes. You’re going to need to pay taxes, you’re going to need to turn the A/C down you’re going to need to be a little less comfortable sometimes. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you.

JUST IN: In a stunning upset, democratic socialist Melat Kiros has unseated 30-year incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Colorado House primary www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits.

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A rent freeze tastes pretty sweet.

🆕 Why Nigeria's smallholders remain stuck: Seeds, credit, and missing data Today on VoxDev, Khadijat B. Amolegbe (University of Ilorin) discusses why seed failures, credit exclusion, and poor data trap Nigeria's smallholders: https://ow.ly/EiAQ50ZgLCq

🆕 Institutions, not innovation, are the barrier to Nigeria's agricultural productivity growth Today on VoxDev, Khadijat B. Amolegbe (University of Ilorin) discusses how institutional failures prevent Nigeria's smallholders from adopting technology: https://ow.ly/fxiP50ZgLSH

🆕 Do protests work? Why political alignment determines economic redistribution Today on VoxDev w/ Belinda Archibong (Johns Hopkins University), Chinemelu Okafor (Harvard University ), Evans Osabuohien (Covenant University) & Tom Moerenhout (Columbia University): https://ow.ly/Sf3Y50Zg99M

Elif Shafak: “We’re living in [an] age that constantly tells us we have to think in dichotomies: are you one of us? Are you one of them? … What literature does is it melts away those dualities” – Part II of her interview with @afsee-lse.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Research shows more and more people in the United States are becoming clinically addicted to ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, that fill up to 70% of grocery store shelves. https://cnn.it/4vRnRUK

The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced: Stevie Wonder John Legend Jennifer Hudson The Roots Bruce Springsteen Christina Aguilera Marsai Martin Common U2’s Bono and The Edge Eddie Vedder Marc Anthony Tems

What happens when efficiency becomes the goal of policy? Philosopher Philip Kitcher (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) argues prioritizing productivity has crowded out ethics, contributing to an "erosion of kindness." Listen to his full conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social here → bit.ly/4a03FI1

multiculturalism is pretty great

Brexit was such a self-own. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New technologies do not automatically benefit workers, even when they increase total productivity. The British economy boomed in the early Industrial Revolution, but workers did not reap the benefits. Read more on our Substack, The Work Ahead: mitstonecenter.substack.com/p/what-can-t...

ACES is pleased to announce the recipients of its Dissertation Fellowship and Research Awards! Congratulations to Guillermo Woo-Mora of the Paris School of Economics and EHESS for the top prize. acesecon.org/aces-dissert...

Americans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it? New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

“.. All signs point to this summer being the worst for teen employment since 1948, when the federal government started tracking the data, as rising inflation and higher fuel prices squeeze the small businesses and restaurants that typically hire them ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/teen...

There are a lot of wellness trends that make health experts roll their eyes in skepticism. But there is one big trend that many experts can get behind – with a few caveats: fibermaxxing.

Consumer sentiment sinks to all-time low, with Americans feeling worse now than they did during wars, 9/11, the Great Recession and Covid-19 pandemic. https://cnn.it/4a2sliS

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

“In most regions, the top 1% of the population owns roughly the same share of total wealth as the bottom 90% combined... Extreme wealth concentration is not an anomaly but a systemic trait” – @ricardo-eco.bsky.social of @wid.world in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation, further compounding affordability concerns. https://cnn.it/3R39Zbe

📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social. Join me @gamblingondev.bsky.social @roccozizzamia.bsky.social on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th. www.economics.ox.ac.uk/csae-postdoc...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "‘Identify the Expert’: an Experimental Study in Economic Advice" by Theodore Alysandratos, Aris Boukouras, Sotiris Georganas, and Zacharias Maniadis.

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

Congratulations to Chinemelu Okafor, recipient of the @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social Dissertation Writing Grant. 👏 The funding will enable her to travel to Nigeria to conduct research that will serve as the foundation for the first chapter of her dissertation. #GovGrads buff.ly/8ohbnJ8

Sub-Saharan Africans often valued 'wealth in people'. Women were especially valued, constituting the majority of slaves within Africa and commanding higher slave prices. Patriarchs then extracted rents by controlling that labour. www.ggd.world/p/are-queen-...

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Female Power for Whom? Queen mothers, pawned girls, and the limits of the Standard Cross Cultural Sample www.ggd.world/p/female-pow...

There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)

"I’m done ceding my brain — the core of all that makes me who I am — to the financial interests of a small number of technology billionaires or the shortsighted conveniences of hyperactive communication styles......our slide into the cognitive shallows and decide to actually do something about it."

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

From our FirstView: The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India by AKSHAY GOVIND DIXIT. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...