In this piece for LSE's EUROPP blog, @jafrieden.bsky.social and I summarize recent research in @eupthejournal.bsky.social on the relationship between UI generosity and support for populist political parties in Europe. The full article can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Article: Competition Law and Varieties of Capitalism in the Long Run: The Evolution of Institutional Complementarity, 1890–2010 From: @chasefoster.bsky.social and @sebastiankohl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Avenue Q is back! They even interviewed me after opening night I was prepared to talk political economy, but they asked about my favorite song instead. I went with “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” since this has been my life for the past 15 years… and yes, the undergrads do keep getting younger.

By ignoring international law, the US is reinforcing a dangerous lesson: the surest way for authoritarian regimes to avoid being bombed is to acquire nuclear weapons.

North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

If for whatever weird reason he ever ends up being held accountable (he won’t, I know), his legal defense might be quite hard.

It's not good that the price of oil is the only deterrent the world has on the US military.

This is a chance to revive the green transition, which has been sidelined since Trump’s election Europe and China are partly insulated from oil shocks thanks to past investments in renewables, transit & EVs The US, by contrast, is far more exposed, and Trump has doubled down on that vulnerability.

Each of these outcomes would result in untold numbers of deaths and the destruction of the conditions necessary for many more people to live… but I suppose we should withhold judgment until the cost–benefit analysis is complete…?

If you care about Black representation, you should be concerned that the oldest Dems running in 2026 are Black Maxine Waters (87) Jim Clyburn (85) Frederica Wilson (83) Emanuel Cleaver (81) David Scott (80) Alma Adams (79) Sanford Bishop (79) Al Green (78) Bobby Scott (78) Bennie Thompson (78)

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

UofSC researchers found an incidence rate of 5% in South Carolina for a rare parasite 😬. It was very prevalent in Spartanburg, the same place where we've seen the big measles outbreak... apparently it spreads through groundwater contaminated with human fecal matter 🤢 www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/...

This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right

The Home Office has hired IFF Research to survey current visa holders about how proposed changes to settlement rules might affect their plans. Some of the questions are strange, e.g. asking whether I’ve used welfare services and whether rule changes tied to these would affect my settlement plans.

Using regional employment data, the map shows which parts of Europe are most exposed to the rise in Chinese import competition across manufacturing industries. The results highlight the industrial core of Germany and the manufacturing belt of CEE.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Emmanuel Damas died in ICE custody after ICE failed to treat a tooth issue that turned into pneumonia. ICE didn't even keep his family updated. The Trump admin's cruelty knows no bounds. I'm pressing with Senator Markey and Rep. Pressley to hold ICE accountable.

No. Peter Thiel cannot be allowed to annex the National Science Foundation via this Palantir proxy. It would be like putting a pyromaniac in charge of the Library of Alexandria: destruction of a global treasure with no "undo" button. This is a "to the barricades" moment.

Add to the file “the Greens leadership may be actually good at politics”

Only three Republicans (two in the House and one in the Senate) voted today to curb Trump’s war powers The so called “anti-war” faction on the right gets a lot of media attention, but it barely registers in Congress. I see little evidence it’s durably shaping policy.

Todays violent episode in the senate echoes the antebellum era, when violence in Congress was periodic The most notorious incident occurred in 1856 when a pro-slavery senator brutally beat the abolitionist Sen Charles Sumner, leaving him incapacitated for 3 years home.heinonline.org/blog/2021/03...

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

The economic effects of this illegal war keep expanding With Russian and Iranian airspace closed, most Europe-Asia flights pass through a narrow corridor over Azerbaijan. After today’s drone attacks that route could close, forcing airlines onto much longer southern paths www.ft.com/content/10c5...

Impressive timing by Shabana Mahmood for today to be the day she announces her asylum policy 'inspired by Kristi Noem'.

This quote is apocryphal. As far as I can ascertain, Orwell never wrote it. He did criticize pacifism and believed some degree of state coercion could be necessary, but he also opposed the kind of gratuitous displays of force and insidious state propaganda embraced by Noem and this administration.

It’s striking that Kristi Noem’s killing of her puppy, Cricket, provoked more outrage by Republicans than allegations of self-dealing, the deaths of two American citizens, the detention of hundreds more, countless migrant deaths and due-process violations linked to 605,000 deportations.

Imagine rushing back to a war zone in order to avoid paying UK tax. The strange political economy of neoliberal tax havens. www.ft.com/content/80bf...

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents. Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:

This is the most crooked US administration in the last 100 years.👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.

Not enough reporting on the fact that Netanyahu’s government goal of making Iran a failed /crippled state isn’t in the interest of the USA and its Gulf Allies.

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran. So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

The very definition of a supervillain.

Spain, UK, Canada and now France. Any other OECD countries?

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

This is more of an indictment of what has been considered good research than a revelation that AI can do good social science. I'd like to see Claude go build a relationship with members of a former autocracy and then generate a clear theory to explain something no one had caught before

Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.

I was told we were a superpower

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Hillary Clinton has more than her share of flaws, but when it comes to "showing congressional Republicans the proper level of contempt" she is flawless.

"Canada cannot endorse the unilateral & illegal use of military force, the killing of civilians or the kidnap & assassination of foreign heads of gov't while also insisting that our sovereignty, our rights and our independence must be respected." @wgreaves.bsky.social www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident” warns that Iran may be entering “an even more repressive and difficult era.” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

I am concerned to see the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, and that the UK has allowed the US to use its bases for strikes on Iran. No matter how the Prime Minister tries to redefine offensive as defensive, this is a mistake.

Meanwhile they’ve pushed out the rare sane voices from the early 2000s, such as Paul Krugman and Eugene Robinson