ICE enforcement efforts are intensifying across the country and especially in Massachusetts. It is a sad day when children are being used like bait to detain their parents. These children will be traumatized for life. Full article here: bit.ly/484QPYQ #ImmigrationPolicy #FamilySeparation

🌟 We’re excited to welcome the third cohort of SSN Media Fellows! Over the next year, these scholars will work with SSN mentors to grow their media impact and share research with wider audiences. 📰 Learn more: scholars.org/media-fellow...

I'm so honored and excited to be part of this group! Thank you @scholars.org!

"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

IPR welcomed three new fellows this fall who are investigating power and opportunity in American life—from mass incarceration and political communication to clean energy and fair hiring. Click here to read more: spr.ly/63328Ad53y

Now more than ever its critical that academic experts get out of the "ivory tower" and engage with policymakers and practitioners, showing exactly how insights from our research have relevance beyond the academy. (2/2)

I'm proud to be a member of @scholars.org, whose annual report you can read here: (1/2) scholars.org/sites/schola...

New @sbs.nationalacademies.org report shows federal tax credits lifted 2M+ children out of poverty in 2021. Director Chris Wimer served with fellow experts on the study committee. Read the report: nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/291...

New article with @kelleyfong.bsky.social in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Over 14,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States, concentrated in underserved Midwestern+Southern states, are currently working on H-1B visas. This is the high-skill visa program, lifeblood for critical sectors, that the US Administration is sledgehammering. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The Trump administration is limiting enforcement of fair housing laws, dismissing them as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise, according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.

This is a terrific piece by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social. He explains extremely well, at least IMHO, the logic of competitive authoritarianism, where and how its happening here, and that we still have time to stop it.

Trump administration tackling the problem of home health care workers getting wages that are [checks notes...] too high.

It was a pleasure speaking with senior policy correspondent @rachelbooth.bsky.social from @vox.com about my new book—and what my research means for debates about family structure & racial inequality. Read about our wide-ranging discussion below: t.co/blPn9HmhTU

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I'm quoted here on an issue I've been raising for years now: the dire economic implications of democratic decline. Business has been painfully slow to recognize the risks --- so it is really, really good to see business reporters covering the story.

Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊 #Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality

I’m delighted to share that link to my PBS interview about INHERITED INEQUALITY is now available! Follow the link below: youtu.be/w1P79Ryy50w?...

I sat down with Emmy award-winning journalist @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social from @amanpourcopbs.bsky.social for an-depth interview about my new book, INHERITED INEQUALITY. Tune in tomorrow at 11pm on PBS!

Ultimately, having academics support sound federal policymaking could build the case for why the federal government should support higher education-and perhaps help rebuild public trust in what we do as academics. No illusions that this will be easy, but now is the time to start thinking! 7/

As I describe in the piece, economics already has a strong presence and there are good pipelines throughout the White House and agencies for junior and senior economists. But we should think about bringing in other disciplines too -- anthropology, political science, sociology, history. 6/

So many immediate horrors right now, but I appreciated the invitation from @donmoyn.bsky.social to reflect on the future and how social scientists could help with the eventual federal government rebuilding. As @sbagen.bsky.social has argued persuasively, we need to start now with that effort! 1/

Maine @scholars.org member Daniel Bryant has a piece in the @bangordailynews.bsky.social this week examining Maine's urgent need for a single-payer health care system. Check it out at the link below.

Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Third addendum to bio: I now have a Substack, Political Sightlines, focused on on what’s happening in the U.S., why, and how to fight authoritarianism and build a more perfect union. Please take a look and if you like what you see read, subscribe and share. amyfried.substack.com

Blueskyers, I’m a retired political scientist, still actively writing and doing more real politics, whose core research has been on the history and political uses of public opinion. But I've done research other topics, too! My 1st pub was on abortion politics, the latest on ranked choice voting. 1/5

Lucky to be in the picture

My latest for MSNBC: CMS is adding new prior authorization requirements for traditional Medicare, implemented with AI. Prior auth is a key vehicle for coverage denials that then drive administrative burdens of appealing, which seniors are less well equipped to navigate. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

MA is facing serious cuts from Big Bad Bill. Hundreds of thousands could lose health care and social safety net services. This loss mirrors the ongoing exclusion of immigrants, a topic I explore in Not All In and my Milbank Quarterly Op-ed ‘We are All Immigrants Now.’ bit.ly/4lUVyPW #NotAllIn

Early reviews of INHERITED INEQUALITY are in I couldn’t be happier with its reception. I’ll be posting one each day this week. First up, award-winning author & sociologist, Anthony Jack. THANK YOU!

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

My op-ed is part of a series of 5-6 articles (there's one I thought would be there that I don't see) by Philly-area professors about what's happening in higher ed (what the Trump admin's attacks are doing, to be specific) and how we are responding, from different disciplines & types of institutions.

I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today. All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked. Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

This was such an uplifting conversation. It might feel like the world is falling apart right now, but the care and the joy that we share with each other can give us the strength to fight to fix it and prevent us from turning against each other as things get worse from bad.

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

When Ziblatt is talking about the lessons from Weimar for the present day, you listen. Chilling.

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Grateful for @brookings.edu amazing team for support w/this piece. Things are heavy but building awareness, supporting educators & community-based organizers is critical. I write about the impact of state and federal policies on local communities & what we can do. www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

Look what just arrived! Our book, Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, is due out Sept. 23. www.amazon.com/Rural-Versus...

Scholars of immigration, join us tomorrow!

Join this @scholars.org webinar tomorrow 8/21 featuring 2 of our section members - @drlizaaranda.bsky.social and @drernestocast.bsky.social Immigration: How Scholars can Engage to Inform Policy scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...

In advance of Labor Day, I scored the GOP's new pro-worker agenda. Upside: lots of room for improvement! Downside: *lots* of room for improvement. theconversation.com/trump-admini...

In a new Op-Ed for @technologyreview.com, I draw on research from my forthcoming book to suggest a playbook for clean energy advocates in these backwards times: www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/19/1...

People with #disabilities face a real risk of re-institutionalization. Our latest @urbaninstitute.bsky.social blog #disability #homelessness www.urban.org/urban-wire/n...

My friends at USC Lusk Neighborhood Data for Social Change just launched #SOLACHAN, the first (and now annual) comprehensive look at LA's housing and neighborhoods la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/