NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tom Homan to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

Yeah absolutely, but I bet a lot of people didn't think this was going to be that bad. And to make matters worse, H-1B visa holders are REQUIRED to leave the country to renew their visas every few years, so right now there are likely thousands of H-1B visa holders outside the country.

Link to the White House official posting in the thread.

🚨🚨🚨🚨Without explanation, BLS has indefinitely delayed a key data release used to calculate inflation. Annual Consumer Expenditures data is used to determine the weighting of specific goods and services in the Consumer Price Index for the year ahead. www.axios.com/2025/09/19/b...

Asked ChatGPT to categorize some data it just produced for me, and got this mournful piece of existentialism back. Thanks ChatGPT!

I’m hosting a Zoom chat with @mikegeruso.bsky.social ‬⁩on Wednesday, 9/17 from 8-9 PM ET about his fantastic new book AFTER THE SPIKE. I hope you’ll join us! Register at www.bit.ly/GerusoFANWebinar for this FAN‬⁩ event.

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

We are hiring in sociology of education at Teachers College! Come join us in EPSA - we're a great crew :-) employment.tc.columbia.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Breaking News: A House committee obtained a sexually suggestive drawing apparently signed by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, which Trump had denied existed.

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

I call it JOMO: Joy of Missing Out.

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either. This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem  This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now 1/

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

You can read the letter here: www.savehhs.org The scale of public dissent from federal employees is extraordinary, even as the threats against them are unprecedented. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...

Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"

Nearly 600 economists, Nobel Laureates sign open letter supporting due process for Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve independence for the good of our economy and democracy. Great work from @tderyugina.bsky.social organizing such a quick response. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today is the last day to sign!

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026. More information, including call for papers, to follow

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence! The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top). If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"We allowed our No. 1 ally, on our watch, to violate every single principle and pillar of humanitarian assistance and civilian protection that we created for the world."

Heroes in our public service are making sharp sacrifices to stand against extremist attacks on our institutions. What a contrast to what others are doing.

Check out the first of our exciting Conference panels: HCV concentration & implications | how information about opportunity & environmental health affects housing decisions | impact of SAFMRs on moves to low-poverty | Community Choice Demo initial outcomes. Don't miss it! Register: shorturl.at/Fpreb

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Honestly this feels like a constitutional crisis. *Powell needs to issue a quick statement pushing back. *Will Trump try to use force to bar Cook from working? *Assuming we get to litigation, will SCOTUS fold and go along with Trump's for "cause" rationale? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

My piece for The Argument today is about how America created a loophole for discrimination in the Fair Housing Act under the pretense of wanting to build housing for seniors. www.theargumentmag.com/p/no-country...

The Fair Housing Act bans discrimination against families w/ children but nobody cares so landlords and investors openly share tips on how to break the law

I need to hear a lot of economists speaking up for Lisa Cook. This is actually very important.

3/ Halimi initially wonders if Musk’s accusation is an April Fool’s joke. After all, the decades of work he had done consulting for U.S. diplomats wasn’t in service of the Taliban; it was the opposite. Little did he know his nightmare was just beginning.

A US immigration agent said this.

Zohran Mamdani’s idea for publicly funded groceries in food deserts is a bad idea. Here’s why I support Donald Trump plan to nationalize Intel By Megan McArdle

US President Donald Trump said he would fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors if she does not resign her post over mortgage-fraud accusations from a top ally.

NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

How will Republican gerrymandering impact Democrats' chances in the House? I loaded up the proposed maps in TX and CA, and made some guesses elsewhere, to see what vote margin Dems will need in order to win the majority next year. The answer may surprise you! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-will-r...

“This is a new attempt of the administration to gain more control over the Fed,” said Claudia Sahm, “They’re pulling as many different levers as they can find to get that control.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“This is one more basic test for the media. Are they going to focus on the pretextual attacks to discredit Cook —the mortgage allegations, or her qualifications — or will they recognize the pattern of a government using its powers to crush any independent sources of power?” *obviously racist attacks

The clear assault on Black women in public leadership happening right now is an alarm. In #TheDoubleTax, I discuss Governor Cook's rise to power and how there was a concerted effort to discredit her. Believe me when I say if they can oust Governor Cook, Jerome Powell is next. #econsky #blacksky

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gavin newsom’s favorability rating is 20 points underwater nationally. i’m curious how his new tough guy schtick plays out. one big problem for newsom is that the moderate voters i talk to in my neighborhood all think he is too progressive, since he's from california, regardless of his policies.

Here is the link to my keynote: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbLD...

Not a sign of a functioning democracy... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

School feeding program in Rwanda yields 11x return on investment academic.oup.com/jae/article-...

How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education? Let’s look to history Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions Hitler destroyed them How long did they take to recover? They haven’t