Really useful to have such a significant corpus of news attention qs for comparison! Also highlights how much tariffs, DOGE, immigration and the Abrego Garcia case in particular broke through.

Leftover Chinese food for breakfast: yea or nay?

Congratulations to all of you who survived holidays with the family. Godspeed to those who still have a day or two to go.

You mean it was all a grift who could possibly have guessed

has there ever been an easier bingo on the Spelling Bee?

Once again the Jew is in charge of Christmas dinner. Eve menu: pot roast, duchess potatoes, braised carrots and turnips, Kismet wedge salad Day menu: tamales (purchased), Mexican rice, Texas pintos, roasted butternut squash salad

Pretty cool to have one of my papers listed as most cited in the Economic Reports of the President from the past 15 years. See the recent NBER working paper for the source on this: www.nber.org/papers/w34597

We could end extreme poverty for a cost of .3% of global GDP www.nber.org/papers/w3458...

"Our findings challenge the belief that school boards are unimportant, showing that who serves on the board and what they prioritize can have far-reaching consequences for students." www.nber.org/papers/w3459...

"system design— not school effectiveness alone—shapes who benefits from public school choice and to what extent." www.nber.org/papers/w3458...

“Don’t cook anything too complicated - I’d rather have you here in the living room with us!” [me, silently] “Damn, she’s onto me.”

Worth watching 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' in any of its versions, as a reminder of what CBS has been. Or 'The Insider,' about 60 Minutes in particular. This is really, really bad.

I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"

Seems bad jewishinsider.com/2025/12/jere...

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Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

Good take www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

This is our neighborhood HD and I will never be going there again.

Complaining that your J kid is a lefty civil rights lawyer is like complaining that she has curly hair

I was a forerunner in recognizing the value of profanity in everyday life!

Anthropic’s CEO claims AI may double lifespans and help us escape death. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s AI actual vending machine “approved the purchase of a PlayStation 5, a live betta fish and bottles of Manischewitz wine—all of which arrived and were promptly given away for free.” (The fish lives.)

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Among other catastrophic effects of the resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases, this new work shows how it drives student absences (and undoubtedly learning as well)

Great list of education research. www.edutopia.org/visual-essay...

Grades submitted. Commence sabbatical!

How interesting to be chosen as a discussant for a conference I have not attended since 2019!

Because we cannot say it enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Oh good a professional troll in charge this should go well.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A great list of articles here, including #9, which features work from yours truly and others on the distribution, causes, and consequences of chronic absenteeism hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Cannot possibly stress how little I'm looking forward to the next wave of discussion on survey measurement of antisemitism and conspiratorial thinking and, particularly, the intersection w/ potential opt-in sample quality issues, but...probably we should have that discussion.

"Our research suggests that the implementation of regular random compliance checks with stiff penalties on retailers for noncompliance may help reduce the influence of legal markets on youth use." www.nber.org/papers/w3456...

Really interesting new work exploring the widening gulf in life outcomes in America according to social class / education levels. (Applications to education?) www.nber.org/papers/w3455...

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

MK and I cherish the time that we got to spend with Rob and Michele Reiner — we were devastated to learn of their passing. Titans of the industry in every sense, the Reiners' legacy is secured through works of art that impacted generations. May their memories be a blessing.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

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Heartbroken for my friends and colleagues at Brown, and everyone else affected by yet another senseless mass shooting.

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

Working on a piece about how 2025 is the year all MAGA's accusations about indoctrination in public schools became confessions via their state and federal education initiatives. Wow, there's a lot.

Nothing better than spending an entire morning working to add all the things R1 and R2 want and then methodically deleting 1-2 words at a time to get your paper back under the word count limit (that inexplicably includes references?!?). This is what I always dreamed professoring would be like.

Why I’ve sold AI to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook School Districts!

🫠 Trump’s personal mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud, records reveal - ProPublica apple.news/Af9xzZhyNSJi...

Amazing reporting from @katiemangan.bsky.social and @peterelkind.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/the-... previously unreported documents and interviews... reveals the extent to which the government violated legal and procedural norms to gin up its case against the institution

Actually, we can improve schools through policy--nice debunking here from Vlad Kogan www.educationnext.org/debunking-de...

Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread: I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here: