Does Islamist terrorism still affect political attitudes? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Not all politicians are the same.

Pope Leo XIV is a good man, called to serve and firmly rooted in the teachings of the Catholic faith. Catholics around the world welcome his leadership with gratitude. But of course, it seems that the only religion acceptable to the President is one that sees him as the Savior.

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

New publication alert 📣: With data from Spain, Fran Villamil and I show that the long-term impact of authoritarianism on civil society vary across generations [open access] cup.org/3ObemzP

What a shocker.

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Super important project and was thrilled to be a small part of. Thanks very much to @i4replication.bsky.social and my replication coauthors Alexa Frederice & @anyastewart.bsky.social of @laiabalcells.bsky.social 's @thejop.bsky.social paper on the effects of visiting Transitional Justice Museums.

Think about how many brains are being absolutely COOKED by sycophancy right now

You mean what they've DONE in the USA. The Senate is unbreakable. It's an uphill battle.

Hungary’s unfair election: Why Viktor Orbán is so hard to beat www.politico.eu/article/hung... P.S. This is very much what the Republican party is trying to do in the USA.

This is so confusing.

Again, the questions are getting slightly better, but this is still simply not being covered in the breathless disaster way that Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was covered: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Again, this "The President has a unique style of strategic ambiguity" is simply not the way Joe Biden & his inability to provide a 100% surgically clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned timetable for an 🇦🇫 withdrawal were covered in 2021. Just an incredible double standard.

An administrator just sent out an announcement for a program for the upcoming 2025/2026 academic year to a large list serve. A recipient asked if she meant 2026/2027 and she responded with “yes, 2006/2007!” and I just want to give her a big hug and hide her reply all button.

Quiet. Part. Loud.

A mi, la gestoria em respon amb això 😉 quan els envio factures, etc.

Also known as MAGA Johnson.

When did we normalize replying to emails from colleagues, co-authors, professors...with a heart?

Interesting take:

Alternative Treatments are Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Survival: medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

James Madision: Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. Mike Johnson: Here's your big golden statue, Mr. President, sir! Trump: Thanks Mark!

so.... this is a shipping tax.

A jury determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using YouTube, Instagram in a landmark social media addiction trial

Q: In my reporting, I speak to young voters, many of whom voted for Trump for the first time hoping to have no more wars and lower prices. With the war and gas prices going up, what's Trump's message to those voters? LEAVITT: President Trump is doing this for you. He's doing this for young people

Carolina de Miguel Moyer 2026 Award. Submit your nominations: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is The Onion problem all over again. Your posts show up in my feed, and they feel like news, not satire.

I enjoyed reading this article by Sydney Ember but…. I would like to see more content about the worsening job market for young people without 4 year college degrees (including teenagers). They outnumber young college grads! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

It’s obviously a secondary or tertiary cause but at least some of the airport chaos/ICE etc is because the people ultimately responsible for it have not set foot in the normal part of an airport in like 45 years

CNN: Iranian representatives have let the Trump administration know it does not want to re-enter negotiations with special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and would prefer to engage with Vice President JD Vance www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

2) At the end, Joe asks him if there's anything else he wants to talk about, and RFK asks Joe to ask him what he thinks about immigration. Joe duly does, and RFK proceeds to defend ICE, as does Joe. It feels the White House handling Joe after all those recent headlines.

There are two particularly remarkable things in this episode. 1) RFK Jr says that the stomach is microbiome is made up of plants. He specifically says "Your stomach microbiome is plants". It is not. I think he has been confused by the term "gut flora". He is the head of Health and Human Services.

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump has done the impossible and made ordinary Americans like TSA

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

I actually feel vaguely sick, just powerlessly watching this slow-motion disaster unfold

All this. Yes.

Elon Musk is acting like “talking about your feelings” is weak and unnecessary while he simultaneously uses his account with 230 million followers on the platform he owns to post about his feelings like a 14 year old emo kid on MySpace in 2009

"I do teach political philosophy in a British university, so I have had to wrestle with the impact of large language models (LLMs) in one small domain: higher education. And here, my conclusion is simple. The threat they pose is existential." unherd.com/2026/03/how-...

It must be Biden's fault.

🌀 💡 Divided by sovereignty claims, territorial identity, and societal polarization 🌍 Lesley-Ann Daniels, @laiabalcells.bsky.social & Alexander Kuo explore how competing claims over sovereignty and identity are deepening societal divides and what that means for politics today.

The population of people who know that there is such a thing as the Strait of Hormuz, know that Iran is blocking it, but don''t know *why* is within epsilon of zero.

Good thing everyone involved is only in a position of power because of merit

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

IR folks, isn't Israel doing what his theory says it's supposed to be doing and morality has no place in realist approach to achieving and maintaining hegemony? An honest question, it's been years since I last looked into offensive and defensive realism and other tragedies of grerat powers

I had a similar experience recently speaking to a Catalan woman who had voted for all the political parties in the Catalan political system, from ERC to VOX.

In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...

we have known about this threat for 20 years. amazing