👇 Not only is this true, it is literally the only non-revolutionary path to a political transition. There is no option for a regime change where your only allies are the people who always shared your values!

I've had an uptick in orders for this print recently, for reasons which are not particularly mysterious to me

But on the plus side, this list leaves a lot of things still available to ruin

Now out in open access: "Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol” doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.

Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords used to sound ridiculous as an institutional model of governance

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

A few alum tickets are still left for this Poli Sci Homecoming roundtable next week with @excubs.bsky.social @danielbeland.bsky.social @popovaprof.bsky.social @debthompsonphd.bsky.social @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Reserve: www.eventbrite.ca/e/democracy-... Give: www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/?new=1&...

Come and join us! Our search focuses on econometrics or IO! Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.

And (separately) registration is still open for the alumni Homecoming week roundtable "Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World" www.eventbrite.ca/e/democracy-...

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... It's one thing to succumb to the stick, but Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT, Arizona, Brown, and UVA absolutely must refuse to go chasing after promises of carrots.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/democracy-... @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social Homecoming week roundtable in the Department of Political Science Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World Oct 23, 5:45 pm Moderator: @excubs.bsky.social 1/2

Trump sounds sad that Putin's effort to quickly recolonize Ukraine failed.

No

Trying hard to moderate my Maia Sandu fangirling right now, but I gotta stress she's accomplished something no EEuropean reformist ever has: brought a fugitive oligarch back to face justice AND fended off massive Ru interference to win a referendum and two re-elections (parliamentary+presidential)!

Get better analysis of the Russian economy than Trump does. Tune into Sasha & Sasha at The Bell. pro.thebell.io/webinar_sept...

Wildly illegal, unprecedented, and authoritarian things that would have ended most previous presidencies, now happening daily

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

Such a great initiative!

Just the most incredibly shortsighted & idiotic thing to do, from a party & people supposedly obsessed with maintaining 🇺🇸 power in the face of a rising 🇨🇳 & other geopolitical threats around the world. All to save <checks notes> $86M, which we've already blown on military parades & invading 🇺🇸 cities.

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3222):

IR scholars in global governance/security, come join us in Montreal!

Lots of handwringing over this every year or so, but I am unconvinced that there is any explanation needed other than the prevalence of male-dominated industries that pay well and do not require a degree. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

More or less what you would get if you told a large language model to make pro-Trump fascist imagery (maybe what happened, TBH). Almost cartoonishly fascist; no mystery about what's going on here. Again, these are being promoted by the government that is in power right now.

New in PN: @itsafronomics.bsky.social on why Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women & Black economists "In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"

The funny thing about this scene in Apocalypse Now is that after that helicopter squadron killed a bunch of innocent people while playing the Ride of the Valkyries, Col Kilgore covered the whole village with napalm. At no moment in the movie was he depicted other than a war criminal & psychopath.

This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.

Story: buff.ly/F4PfY7u

I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...

Everyone involved needs to stand up. The stakes are too high.

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

ICYMI

#OpEd "The flame of independent journalism Derk lit 30 years ago has not been extinguished. And we will bring it back to Russia," writes Moscow Times publisher Alexander Gubsky.

THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE

Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

"Trump massively increases taxes on voters for life-saving drugs produced by our closest military allies, claiming totally nonexistent 'national security' & 'national emergency' reasons"

Sure, the rest of the Board of Governors and the regional presidents can restrain an aggressive Fed chair on monetary policy. But the chair has all kinds of discretion to shape the institution. /1

Opportunity for IR professors on sabbatical in 2025-2026: « The Department of Political Science at McGill University invites applications for a Visiting Professorship in International Relations. » mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

It was painful to write an obituary, from an academic's perspective, for one of Russia's most important civil society organizations @themoscowtimes.com www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/11/w...

Thrilled to publish RIPE 32:4 ahead of schedule and summer vacations, as it contains another brilliant special issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance, edited by Eugénia C. Heldt and Susan Park. Most articles are open access! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrip20/3...

“People are dying because of the illegal dismantling of the federal government by the president & his cronies” is a perfectly good first approximation of how current events should be reported in the press. It applies to Texas, USAID, NIH, & all the other things. It’s how we’d cover Any Other Guy.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

There are basic but fundamental errors at the heart of the Wolf-Pettis thesis. Most importantly, there is a misunderstanding of the meaning and definition of 'saving'. 1/

In Russia, the coins stabilise you. on.ft.com/43XnOvI

I don't know how you write this without acknowledging the NIH, and given the attacks on public science funding in the US, this is an incredibly misleading statement: "He estimated that Harvard and others spent $50 million on the research"--I hope this is just sloppy quoting of Doug Melton. /1