Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

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Agenda Austria: wo der Chef den Wahlsieg eines muslimischen Kandidaten mit sozialdemokratischem Wahlprogramm mit 9/11 gleichsetzt.

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component: www.newscientist.com/article/2502... Research paper: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

New call for papers: What is the future for global development? We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters. Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o

I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/

“Not everything that is buried is dead.” Heinrich Heine

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

"The End of (US) Aid? Discussing the future of Aid and Crisis Response" 📆 19.11.2025, 6PM 📍 C3, Sensengasse 3 💬 Lisa Ann Richey (Kopenhagen Business School), Elisabeth Leitner (World Vision Austria), Zeric K. Smith (former USAID). 🎤 @schl.bsky.social ℹ️👉 www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...

The large increase in steel tariffs under GW Bush did not cause an increase in steel-industry employment. But it did hurt the US industries that use steel to make things, reducing employment there long after the tariffs were gone. New in @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/pol....

1️⃣🌍 “A world of crises and complexity is pushing traditional bureaucracies to their limit. What does this mean for Austria’s development policy?" 🇦🇹 That’s the central question @schl.bsky.social & Robert Zeiner ask in a new briefing paper. 📝 👉 www.oefse.at/publikatione...

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The rules have changed—there’s no room for bothsidesing or whataboutism anymore. Given the current trajectory, mainstream media is likely to be replaced by more pro-regime outlets. bsky.app/profile/soci....

📚 In a world where aid budgets are under pressure & global trade faces renewed barriers, @sbrazys_ucd’s The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Access, and Unequal Globalization, one of the latest in the DSA–OUP book series, could not be more timely. @oupacademic.bsky.social buff.ly/Oco8kJG

Another autumn poem by Georg Trakl. My translation of course from Autumnal Elegies. #trakl #poetry #booksky

How is this even real? Check out the White House's Major Events Timeline. #stayclassymyfriends www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

Extremely ominous, once we realize that, by “what happened in the 2020 election”, he means “we lose an election”…

Ein Gespräch von drei Hoover Historikern. Sehr interessant, sollte man sich in Deutschland anschauen, wenn man Aspekte der aktuellen US Situation verstehen will. Vor allem als Deutscher fühlt man sich an das konservative Bürgertum der frühen 1930er Jahre erinnert.

🚨 MPs launch inquiry into the future of #UKAid as budget set to fall 40% from £15.4bn → £9.2bn by 2027 Committee will examine how to maintain impact amid cuts, shifting from donor-led aid to partnerships & investment. ⏳Submit by 31 Oct 👉https://buff.ly/UClQ30c

"A new Independent North–South Commission could offer a credible response to today’s fragmentation by providing a structured space for international dialogue grounded in fairness, feasibility, and forward-thinking." ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2283

Frugal EU member states would actually profit from a bigger EU-budget if support for green industries is well designed, I argue in this piece and describe what ”well-designed” could mean including good governance. ecfr.eu/publication/... @ecfr.eu

"From a middle-income country perspective in the Global South, current changes may be seen as liberating, or even as a long wished-for dismantling of the Western power hegemony and an opportunity for establishing a fairer multilateralism" www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2380

Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Wished there was a positive spin here. Yeah, solar PV and batteries…, but this is scary wmo.int/news/media-c...

For the mathematicians in the room, that's the 3rd derivative pointing in the wrong direction. The plus 3.5 ppm CO₂ means we're at 423.9 ppm. That increase is still increasing at an increasing rate.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Did I miss any updates on the investigation into the motive of Charlie Kirk’s killer? It feels like that just disappeared as a story, which is strange considering his exaltation within GOP and making his murder into a national event. I’d think we’d be getting hearing about it frequently

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

🌍 New ÖFSE Policy Note: "EU Strategic Raw Material Partnerships. Challenges and Future Directions" EU raw material partnerships aim for sustainability but face limits from trade rules, low funding & weak inclusion, risking extractive outcomes. Full paper here 👉 www.oefse.at/publikatione...

I anticipate some sneers thrown Mokyr's way so my preemptive comment... What ever else he might have done, what ever faults he might have, Mokyr has performed a tremendous service simply by stressing the great importance of the Scientific Revolution to the birth of the modern economy.

Kenya’s embrace of geothermal has contributed to major progress on energy stability and access, points out Mugwe Manga. bit.ly/4ojpcQF

Featured in the latest Digest: Declining Fertility in Wealthy Nations https://www.nber.org/digest/202510/declining-fertility-wealthy-nations?page=1&perPage=50

Hostages and political prisoners freed is an unambiguous good. I hope they and their families can find relief, and eventually move past the trauma.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

What are the implications of Western donors' retreat from official development assistance? A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚