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.

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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

#NoKings Montreal

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Bent into Submission? #Domestic #Investors and #Populist #Governments By Alison L. Johnston & @excubs.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Alison Johnston and I have a new open access article out arguing that pressure from domestic rather than foreign bondholders is most effective in forcing populist governments to rein in their economic policies. Our case studies are Italy and Hungary, but there are clear lessons for the USA.

In light of Trump purporting to illegally rename military bases in honor of confederates, my piece from five years ago on the habit of honoring the dishonorable. www.niskanencenter.org/honoring-the...

"Trump declares intention to openly break Congressionally-enacted valid law in order to honor white supremacy." Sums it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Why was the EU enlargement policy successful in countering state capture in Central and Eastern Europe but not in the Western Balkans? In my new article I argue this has a lot to do with how the EU managed their economic integration 🇪🇺🛒 Open access👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

KCL's Department of Political Economy is advertising two permanent Academic Education Pathway (AEP) lectureships (grade 6/7) in politics - one in Research Methods, and one in Comparative Politics. Hopefully, more AEP posts will follow in the next two years. Links & further details are below. 1/5

Huge congratulations to the following graduate students and alumnae who have been recognized at the 2025 Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference for their outstanding work: Lou Pingeot, Anne Imouza, Rose Chabot & Sashenka Lleshaj! 🎉 More details: ➡️ linkedin.com/in/mcgillpolisci