My fellow Americans: Take heart. Resistance is everywhere, all the time. Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/in-2025-we-s...

I took inventory. It looked good.

Mamdani's appeal to me (!) (via @davidwallace.bsky.social): "..in his real-life suit and smile, he looks the part of an eager-beaver student council president." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

Wonderful: "Mamdani on election night thanked Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social @mclem.org

Accessible to all! ...my paper in Journal of Econ Perspectives on World Bank's 1993 East Asian "Miracle" report ("Too Much A Product of Its TIme?") (www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.p...). @cgdev.org @mclem.org @arvind2011.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social

On the long "pregnancy" and the imminent birth of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility: www.cgdev.org/blog/birth-a... @cgdev.org. I never lost hope....Thank you @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social

Photo tells a story: Women were the driving force behind Abigail Spanberger's win in Virginia www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

Indeed. Jen, the Post misses your thoughtful and well-written commentaries dearly. Your departure was the tip of the 'democracy dies on darkness' iceberg.

Long-run employment effects of Bush-era tariffs: When will they ever learn?

Independent research at risk at the World Bank?!??!? Ouch/No! On why that's a bad idea: www.cgdev.org/blog/world-b... @eeshani.bsky.social @cgdev.org

"Tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand": open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Bring a frog to No Kings protest and have some fun; (Trump hates being laughed at): wIsdom from Bill McKibben: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?sh...

The charts are terrifying. I hope someone is showing them to Rubio.

"No other country has true lifetime tenure for its justices, and for good reason". Too bad we do as the Roberts Court is "out of control". contrarian.substack.com/p/even-feder...

See what countries are most affected (negatively) by recent US policy changes. Impressive analysis with depressing result -- poorer countries lose out most. www.cgdev.org/blog/who-bea...

Better go see coral reefs soon. Take photos for your children Oceans are failing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please Pope Leo: speak to this foolish meanness. Sometimes it's embarrassing (and maddening) to be even a "fallen-away" Catholic: www.cgdev.org/blog/catholi...

Bill McKibben on Trump at the UN manages to be funny, sort of:https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-stupidest-speech-in-un-history?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=438146&post_id=174385635&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=jub32&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I like this representation of headwinds!

Can developing countries expect inequality to fall post-structural transformation, as predicted by the Kuznets Curve? @nbirdsall.bsky.social highlights unforeseen headwinds—populism, climate damage, and more—that pose new challenges ⬇️ https://bit.ly/45DsCr4

This Admin fears experts. I have think of colleagues/friends, now US citizens with US-born children, who are here thanks to those H1B visas.

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…” (from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

Thank you to Bill Burns for his letter to US public servants in The Atlantic. Compelling on US best interests and full of the understanding and empathy the victims of Trump Admin/DOGE deserve. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

below, so well said: the government's "pitiful response to its own mistakes, which vary from simple ineptitude to willful noncompliance". Thank you to the "handful of federal judges"

Yes you wouldn't know Kirk's extremist views. . . .

America’s competitiveness and innovation capacity is being systematically eviscerated by the US Administration. This will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans equally.

Statement from the American Economics Association. Signed by AEA President & former USDOL Chief Economist @lkatz42.bsky.social Former BLS Commissioner Abraham Former Treasury DAS & Chief Economist Dynan, & Chair of AEA Govt Relations Committee Ken Troske bsky.app/profile/mart...

Lesotho was one of the biggest successes of AGOA -- which meant 'liberation day' hit particularly hard. Little early to see this in the trade data, but doesn't look great. NYT reporting factories shuttered. People going from $7/day factory jobs to $1/day hawking on the street.

"...escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence & integrity of the federal statistical system. "The president seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news. "...firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit & undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics..."

And now the Bur Labor Stats down the Trump data drain: open.substack.com/pub/robertre... @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy

Paul Krugman on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, NY: a quandary for ICE (!) open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Yes! Brazil has invented the future of money....read about Pix: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Why isn't George W. Bush issuing a statement regretting what his Republican colleague Trump is doing to Pepfar? What has he got to lose? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

Impressive reporting from Pro Publica. I'm glad @mclem.org is paying attention to the cruelty not just the economic stupidity of the deportations.

This is so good (effective tariff rates of US). In some ways seems random -- makes one wonder if anyone in the White House has a clue about what they are doing to friends vs foes. www.cgdev.org/media/us-tar...

real effective tariffs country by country. (Why is Trump torturing poor Cambodia?!? ) www.cgdev.org/media/us-tar...

"Immigrants are the lifeboat of the (US) economy" (we are losing 1 m workers per year.... mostly due to aging). Listen to @mclem.org on this panel. . .Sigh...what's happening is perverse, and cruel too.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

It is an impossible perversion of federal power to deploy US Marines against American citizens on US soil in peacetime. No civil war exists.

Really good, and really alarming....on what's happening in West Africa....

Newsom's retort to Ala. Senator Tuberville (re the non-riots in LA) : “Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California. Its murder rate is ranked third in the entire country. Stick to football, bro.”

On trade: Bad news from Krugman: No off-ramp TACO just more temper tantrums. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-there-a...

Researchers, policymakers, and more are back at @cgdev.org today for Day 2 of the Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure. Stay tuned for crucial presentations on established sources of lead exposure, the role of funders, and more. www.cgdev.org/event/first-...

Why Trump is undermining his own trade goal www.cgdev.org/blog/trumpon.... Good from Danny Bahar @cgdev.org

Some Americans are Conservative, and some Americans are Liberal, but Americans are not stupid.

Excellent summary (on African Dev Bank looks bleak)

The Economist does not exaggerate...its approach is brilliantly and carefully centrist..

Big news: on a bipartisan basis the Senate just voted to reject Trump's tariffs on Canada. The House has to vote on it next, where it's less likely to pass, but the cracks are starting to form. Trump is losing support from Republicans on his costly trade war.